Does design matter? Affordance perspective on smartphone usage

Industrial Management & Data Systems

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1248-1269

  Tsai, jo Peng ^a   ho, Chin fu ^b  

^a FAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Affordance; Descriptive beliefs; Diversity; Interaction of human and product; Intuition; Smartphone usage

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; DESCRIPTIVE BELIEFS; DIVERSITY; INTERACTION OF HUMAN AND PRODUCT; INTUITION;

RESEARCH; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84887502366     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-04-2013-0168     Document Type: Article

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