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Reflections on HCI for development

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This forum looks at how the fields of interaction design and HCI can extend to cover "developing" communities around the world, ones that are gaining access to digital technology for the first time. Gary Marsden, Editor

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    cover image Interactions
    Interactions  Volume 20, Issue 6
    November + December 2013
    81 pages
    ISSN:1072-5520
    EISSN:1558-3449
    DOI:10.1145/2532360
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