The phone rings but the user doesn't answer: Unavailability in mobile communication

Mobile HCI 2011 - 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 503-512

  Salovaara, Antti ^a   Lindqvist, Antti ^a   Hasu, Tero ^a   Häkkilä, Jonna ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

availability; communication; plausible deniability; unavailability

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PHONE CALLS; PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY; TEXT MESSAGES; UNAVAILABILITY;

COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE CALLS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS; USER INTERFACES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054837630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2037373.2037448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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