The promise of the sharing economy among disadvantaged communities

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 2285-2294

  Dillahunt, Tawanna R ^a   Malone, Amelia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Airbnb; Lyft; Marginalized populations; Neighborgoods; Sharing economy; Sustainability; Taskrabbit; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AIRBNB; LYFT; MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS; NEIGHBORGOODS; SHARING ECONOMY; TASKRABBIT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84951080014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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