“I'd Sit at Home and Do Work Emails”: How Tablets Affect the Work-Life Balance of Office Workers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2013-April, Issue , 2013, Pages 1383-1388

  Stawarz, Katarzyna ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a   Bird, Jon ^a   Benedyk, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile technology; Touch screen tablets; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; TOUCH SCREENS;

BUSINESS TOOLS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; OFFICE WORKERS; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PERSONAL LIVES; QUALITATIVE STUDY; WORK PRACTICES; WORK-LIFE BALANCE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84902541970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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