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. Thisperspective 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISBN-10
3642410731
ISBN-13
9783642410734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170273985
Product Key Features
Author
Gamel Wiredu
Publication Name
Mobile Computer Usability : an Organizational Personality Perspective
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Progress in Is Ser.
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
Xxi, 211 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
169.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hf54.5-54.56
Table of Content
1 Introduction.- 2 Mobility and Mobile ICT's.- 3 The Historicity of Human Activity and Perception.- 4 The Co-evolution of Organization, Technology and Personality.- 5 Mobile Learning and Computing in the British NHS.- 6 Mobile Foreign Exchange Trading and Computing in a Bahrain Bank.- 7 Distributed Activities and Mobile Computing.- 8 Mobile Computer Usability: An Organizational Personality Perspective.- Appendix.
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Mobile & Wireless Communications, Management Information Systems, Epistemology, Information Management, Enterprise Applications / General
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Philosophy