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Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges

IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, August 1-3, 2005, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Carsten Sørensen

    1. The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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  2. Youngjin Yoo

    1. Case Western Reserve University, USA

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  3. Kalle Lyytinen

    1. Case Western Reserve University, USA

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  4. Janice I. DeGross

    1. University of Minnesota, USA

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  • Catalogues the very latest research in the rapidly changing field of ubiquitous information environments, with particular attention to mobile and wireless communication technologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 185)

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity

    • Carsten Sørensen, Youngjin Yoo
    Pages 1-14

  3. Keynotes

    1. The Future of Work

      • Thomas W. Malone
      Pages 17-20

    2. Its the Experience, Not the Price

      • Lee Green
      Pages 21-22

    3. The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality

      • Paul Dourish
      Pages 23-26

  4. Individual Consequences

    1. Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users

      • Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Karl Reiner Lang, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
      Pages 29-42

    2. The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Women in the Information Technology Workforce

      • Jeria L. Quesenberry, Eileen M. Trauth
      Pages 43-55

    3. Reflexivity, the Social Actor, and M-Service Domestication: Linking the Human, Technological, and Contextual

      • Jennifer Blechar, Lars Knutsen, Jan Damsgaard
      Pages 57-70

    4. Privacy Considerations in Location-Based Advertising

      • Heng Xu, Hock-Hai Teo
      Pages 71-90

  5. Organizational Impact

    1. Mobility in the Round: Use of Wireless Laptop PCs in Clinical Ward Rounds

      • Henrique M. G. Martins, Matthew R. Jones
      Pages 93-108

    2. Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel

      • Andrea Tapia, Steve Sawyer
      Pages 109-122

    3. Assessing the Mobile-Stationary Divide in Ubiquitous Transport Systems

      • Magnus Andersson, Rikard Lindgren, Ola Henfridsson
      Pages 123-137

    4. The Impact of Ubiquitous Computing Technologies on Business Process Change and Management: The Case of Singapore’s National Library Board

      • Anand Ramchand, Paul Raj Devadoss, Shan L. Pan
      Pages 139-152

    5. Ubiquitous Computing and the Double Immutability of Remote Diagnostics Technology: An Exploration into Six Cases of Remote Diagnostics Technology Use

      • Katrin Jonsson, Jonny Holmström
      Pages 153-167

    6. Wireless Grids: Assessing a New Technology from a User Perspective

      • Lee W. McKnight, Raed M. Sharif, Lidwien van de Wijngaert
      Pages 169-181

    7. Fluid Organizing of Work in the Ubiquitous Information Environment

      • Masao Kakihara
      Pages 183-196

    8. The Reconstruction of Portable Computers: On the Flexibility of Mobile Computing in Mobile Activities

      • Gamel O. Wiredu
      Pages 197-212

  6. Development Issues

    1. Mobile Systems Development: A Literature Review

      • Jens Henrik Hosbond, Peter Axel Nielsen
      Pages 215-232

    2. Designing Context-Aware Interaction: An Action Research Study

      • Carl Magnus Olsson, Ola Henfridsson
      Pages 233-247

    3. Approaching Information Infrastructure as an Ecology of Ubiquitous Sociotechnical Relations

      • Panos Constantinides, Michael Barrett
      Pages 249-260
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About this book

This book records one of the continuous attempts of the IFIP Working Group 8. 2, studying the interaction of information systems and the organization, to explore and understand the shifting boundaries and dependencies between organizational activities and their computer support. The book marks the result of the IFIP WG 8. 2 conference on "Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges. " Since its inception in the late 1970s, IFIP WG 8. 2 has sought to understand how computer-based information systems interact and must be designed as an integrated part of the organizational design. At that time, information systems handled repetitive and remote back-office functions and the main concern was work task design for repetitive input tasks and the potential impact of improved information support on organizational decision-making and structure. The focus of the information system design shifted in the 1980s when computers became part of the furniture and moved into the office. Reflecting this significant change, IFIP WG 8. 2 in 1989 organized a conference dedicated to the design and impact of desktop technology in order to examine how organizational processes and the locus of action changed when the computer was moved into the office. Sixteen years later, we are experiencing another significant change. Computers are now becoming part of our body and sensory system and will move out of the traditional office locations and into the wilderness. Again, IFIP WG 8.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Carsten Sørensen

  • Case Western Reserve University, USA

    Youngjin Yoo, Kalle Lyytinen

  • University of Minnesota, USA

    Janice I. DeGross

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