Understanding mobile phone battery - Human interaction for developing world: A perspective of feature phone users in Africa

2012 2nd Baltic Congress on Future Internet Communications, BCFIC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-134

  Dhir, Amandeep ^a   Kaur, Puneet ^b   Jere, Nobert ^c   Albidewi, Ibrahim A ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; ethnography; Human Battery interaction; smartphone

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMERGING MARKETS; END USERS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEATURE PHONES; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; HUMAN-BATTERY INTERACTION; MOBILE PHONE BATTERIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTERNET; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 84863679369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BCFIC.2012.6217992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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