Domestic artefacts: Sustainability in the context of Indian Middle Class

ICIC 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 119-128

  Vyas, Dhaval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Design; Developing countries; Domestic settings; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MACHINERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DEVELOPING WORLD; FIELD STUDIES; HEALTH ISSUES; HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); MIDDLE CLASS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SUSTAINABLE INTERACTIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 85022146096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160881.2160900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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