Analyzing employment technologies for economically distressed individuals

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1945-1950

  Jen, Benjamin ^a   De Heus, Jonathan ^a   Kaur, Jashanjit ^a   Dillahunt, Tawanna R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic mobility; ICT4D; Low income; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS; COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); ICT4D; LOW-INCOME; SOCIAL CAPITALS; TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84900527004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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