Mobile device impairment ... similar problems, similar solutions?

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 673-690

  Harper, Simon ^a   Yesilada, Yeliz ^a   Chen, Tianyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

input technologies; mobile Web; situationally induced impairments; web accessibility

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; DATA INPUT; INPUT TECHNOLOGIES; MOBILE SETTINGS; MOBILE WEB; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; REVERSE ORDER; SIMILAR SOLUTION; SITUATIONALLY-INDUCED IMPAIRMENTS; SMALL DEVICES; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

MOBILE DEVICES; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80051777447     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449291003801943     Document Type: Article

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