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Designing for health activism

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Interactions, Volume 20, Issue 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2427076.2427082

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Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. Christopher A. Le Dantec

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Designing for health activism
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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81 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2427076

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