"It's always there, it's always on": Australian freelancer's management of availability using mobile technologies

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 159, Issue , 2006, Pages 49-52

  Sadler, Kirsten ^a   Robertson, Toni ^a   Kan, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Availability; Mobility; Studies of practice; Work life

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDY; WORK PRACTICES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34547339820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1152215.1152226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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