Empowerment through seamfulness: Smart phones in everyday life

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 629-639

  Barkhuus, Louise ^a   Polichar, Valerie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phones; Mobile phones; Multi functionality; Seamfulness; User study

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; DATA CHALLENGES; DIARY STUDY; HUMAN-COMPUTER; MULTI-FUNCTIONALITY; MULTIPLE FEATURES; RESEARCH POTENTIAL; SEAMFULNESS; SMART PHONES; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 80054979842     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0342-4     Document Type: Article

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