Theory of personalization of appearance: Why users personalize their PCs and mobile phones

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-228

  Blom, Jan O ^a   Monk, Andrew F ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PORTALS;

GROUNDED THEORY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0042238255     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327051HCI1803_1     Document Type: Article

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