Citizen motivation on the go: The role of psychological empowerment

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 196-207

  Gonçalves, Jorge ^a   Kostakos, Vassilis ^a   Karapanos, Evangelos ^b   Barreto, Mary ^b   Camacho, Tiago ^c   Tomasic, Anthony ^d   Zimmerman, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies in HCI; Mobile phones; Psychology; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; MOTIVATION;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENTS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SENSE OF COMMUNITY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84898402424     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwt035     Document Type: Article

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