Beyond the Handset: Designing for Wireless Communications Usability

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-151

  Palen, Leysia ^a   Salzman, Marilyn ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Salzman Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell; Design; field study; Human Factors; mobile; qualitative study; social construction of technology; socio technical systems; Theory; usability; wireless telephones

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986020358     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/513665.513669     Document Type: Article

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