An empirical analysis of smartphone personalisation: Measurement and user variability

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 995-1010

  Tossell, Chad C ^a   Kortum, Philip ^a   Shepard, Clayton ^b   Rahmati, Ahmad ^b   Zhong, Lin ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptability; customisation; iPhone; personalisation; smartphones; usability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABILITY; CUSTOMISATION; IPHONE; PERSONALISATION; USABILITY;

DIGITAL STORAGE; HEURISTIC METHODS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84866679064     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2012.687773     Document Type: Article

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