Mobile work efficiency: Balancing between benefits, costs and sacrifices

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-87

  Väätäjä, Heli ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Impact; Journalism; Mobile; News; Smartphone; Work

Indexed keywords

IMPACT; JOURNALISM; MOBILE; NEWS; WORK;

COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ERGONOMICS; MOBILE DEVICES;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84866070694     PISSN: 1942390X     EISSN: 19423918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jmhci.2012040106     Document Type: Article

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