Learning, innovation, and sustainability among mobile phone repairers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 905-914

  Jackson, Steven J ^a   Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque ^a   Rifat, Rashidujjaman ^b  

^a Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Design; Ethnography; Repair; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESIGN; E-LEARNING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BANGLADESH; COMPLEX INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; ETHNOGRAPHY; GLOBAL NETWORKS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; REPAIR WORKS;

REPAIR;

EID: 84904498029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2598510.2598576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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