The world through Glass: developing novel methods with wearable computing for urban videographic research

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 275-287

  Paterson, Mark ^a   Glass, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

field course; Glass; mobile computing; reflexivity; videography; wearables

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH METHOD; STUDENT; TEACHING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84931568698     PISSN: 03098265     EISSN: 14661845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2015.1010143     Document Type: Article

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