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- Researchers can draw upon the epistemology of mobile usability to analyse diverse mobile usability scenarios
- Implementers of mobile information systems in organisations can adopt all three principles – pragmatism, ubiquity, and representation – to deploy mobile computers successfully
- Systems analysts can depend on the personal and organisational needs analysis to determine holistic user satisfaction requirements in the development of mobile information systems
Part of the book series: Progress in IS (PROIS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explains how mobile computer usability is shaped by the increasing integration of personal circumstances in organization. It represents an attempt to conceptualize an alternative model of mobile computer usability. It is motivated by the author’s conviction that we do not yet have an adequate understanding of this concept because we have not taken seriously the transformation of human personality by the co-evolution of organization and ICTs. The author argues that the transformation has resulted in a human personality whose personal and organizational activities are characterized by strong continuities between them. This characterization reflects a new kind of personality of the worker, and is a critical determinant of mobile computer usability. The word ‘organizational’ is used to describe this kind of personality – hence an alternative organizational personality perspective on mobile computer usability. This perspective suggests that a mobile computer is more usable to a person than another one because of its satisfaction of both his personal and organizational motives, which are in turn shaped by the co-evolution of organization, technology and personality.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Technology, Ghana Inst. of Mgt. & Public Admin. (GIMPA), Achimota - Accra, Ghana
Gamel O. Wiredu
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobile Computer Usability
Book Subtitle: An Organizational Personality Perspective
Authors: Gamel O. Wiredu
Series Title: Progress in IS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41074-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-41073-4Published: 28 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51127-5Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-41074-1Published: 19 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2196-8705
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8713
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT in Business, Epistemology, Personality and Social Psychology, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology