The impact of distractions on the usability and the adoption of mobile devices for wireless data services

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1851-1862

  Coursaris, Constantinos ^a   Hassanein, Khaled ^b   Head, M ^b   Bontis, Nick ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT OF USE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; MOBILE BUSINESS; MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS; PERCEIVED USABILITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; USER MOTION; VISUAL STIMULUS; WIRELESS DATA SERVICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869420226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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