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Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: by Carsten Sørensen, Youngjin Yoo (auth.), Carsten Sørensen, PDF

By Carsten Sørensen, Youngjin Yoo (auth.), Carsten Sørensen, Youngjin Yoo, Kalle Lyytinen, Janice I. DeGross (eds.)

ISBN-10: 0387275606

ISBN-13: 9780387275604

ISBN-10: 0387289186

ISBN-13: 9780387289182

The quick advancements in cellular and instant verbal exchange applied sciences and the ongoing miniaturization of computing units makes ubiquitous info environments extra of a technical fact than a far off imaginative and prescient. Ubiquituous computing because the subsequent wave of organizational computing bargains new chances and possibilities for agencies to enhance their productiveness and effectiveness. notwithstanding, the emergence of ubiquitous info environments not just signs possibilities, but additionally essentially demanding situations some of the conventional assumptions approximately organisations, administration, computing, conversation and work.

The ubiquitous info environments have an effect on all degrees of association actions. at present there are many actions in designing and imposing ubiquitous info environments. The 7 components of this e-book, and the 31 chapters, conceal a number of concerns concerning the layout and implementation of ubiquitous details environments. The e-book covers outdated and well-known matters in gentle of rising ubiquitous info environments in addition to novel social and technical problems.

The e-book brings in different views on ubiquitous info environments, from computer-supported collaborative paintings, institutional standpoint, diffusion of innovation, administration, sociology, person cognition, and software program engineering. It additionally covers a number of applied sciences that make up ubiquitous info environments together with RFID, instant grid, GPS, cellphones, and instant neighborhood sector community. The papers hide many contexts of ubiquitous computing together with own use, library, vehicle, healthcare, police, specialist wisdom paintings, distant diagnostics of machines, and advertising, testifying to the big variety of capability of ubiquitous info environments.

This publication constructed as a collective manufactured from the overseas Federation for info Processing (IFIP) operating workforce 8.2, a operating team devoted to the examine of the interplay of knowledge structures and the association. The booklet proceeds from the IFIP operating convention at the layout of Ubiquitous info Environments held in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 2005.

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Why do you use a mobile device rather than a wired device to access a particular service? How do other technologies support your use of mobile services? What is the value of mobile services to you? What is the most valuable thing? What problems and risks are associated with the use of mobile devices? How have/are mobile phones changing your life and affecting the quality of your life? /Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users 33 The model in Figure 1 does not explain why or how consumers decided to acquire mobile technology.

In order to better understand the contradictory and ambiguous reality of mobile technology use, we conducted a qualitative research study whosefindingssuggest conceptualizing the phenomenon of mobile technology usage experience from a contextbased and process-oriented perspective. This view is in accordance with Orlikowski (1993), who argues that in order to account for the experiences and implications associated with the usage of IT one has to consider the specific contexts in which IT is being used as well as how the user experience unfolds over time.

The irony that solutions create problems did not go unnoticed. As one person urgently expressed, "it is very important that users think about what specific need a particular service is really satisfying," while someone else wondered "if adding more services is really productive? Every time they add something, people have problems" Paradoxically, the same feature that fulfills one user need creates another. " A new need for privacy was recognized by a number of participants. This need only arose because mobility dind AAA capability had fulfilled user's need to be able to talk in public places.

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