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Ubiquitous computing as the next wave of organizational computing offers new possibilities for organizations to improve their productivity and effectiveness. However, the emergence of ubiquitous information environments fundamentally challenges many traditional assumptions about organizations, management, computing, communication and work. The book brings in diverse perspectives from computer-supported collaborative work, institutional perspective, diffusion of innovation, management, sociology, individual cognition, and software engineering. It also covers a variety of technologies that make up ubiquitous information environments including RFID, wireless grid, GPS, mobile phones, and wireless local area network. The papers cover many contexts of ubiquitous computing, attesting to the wide-ranging potential of ubiquitous information environments. A collective product of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, the book proceeds from the IFIP Working Conference on the Design of Ubiquitous Information Environments held in Cleveland, Ohio in August 2005.

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Author:   Carsten Sørensen ,  Youngjin Yoo ,  Kalle Lyytinen ,  Janice I. DeGross
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Volume:   185
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9781441939005

ISBN 10:   1441939008
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   08 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity.- Keynotes.- The Future of Work.- Its the Experience, Not the Price.- The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality.- Individual Consequences.- Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users.- The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Women in the Information Technology Workforce.- Reflexivity, the Social Actor, and M-Service Domestication: Linking the Human, Technological, and Contextual.- Privacy Considerations in Location-Based Advertising.- Organizational Impact.- Mobility in the Round: Use of Wireless Laptop PCs in Clinical Ward Rounds.- Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel.- Assessing the Mobile-Stationary Divide in Ubiquitous Transport Systems.- The Impact of Ubiquitous Computing Technologies on Business Process Change and Management: The Case of Singapore’s National Library Board.- Ubiquitous Computing and the Double Immutability of Remote Diagnostics Technology: An Exploration into Six Cases of Remote Diagnostics Technology Use.- Wireless Grids: Assessing a New Technology from a User Perspective.- Fluid Organizing of Work in the Ubiquitous Information Environment.- The Reconstruction of Portable Computers: On the Flexibility of Mobile Computing in Mobile Activities.- Development Issues.- Mobile Systems Development: A Literature Review.- Designing Context-Aware Interaction: An Action Research Study.- Approaching Information Infrastructure as an Ecology of Ubiquitous Sociotechnical Relations.- The Slight Surprise of Integration.- Innovation and Diffusion of Ubiquitous Information Environments.- Scaling the Wall: FactorsInfluencing the Conditions for Market Entry in the Mobile Data Market.- An International Mobile Security Standard Dispute: From the Actor—Network Perspective.- Ordinary Innovation of Mobile Services.- The Ubiquity and Utility of Resistance: Codesign and Personalization of Information Systems.- Position Papers.- CrackBerries: The Social Implications of Ubiquitous Wireless E-Mail Devices.- Building a Ubiquitous Artifact That Integrates Problem-Solving and Learning Processes to Support Creativity.- Effects of Wireless Mobile Technology on Employee Work Behavior and Productivity: An Intel Case Study.- Panels.- Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Medicine.- Socio-Technical Research Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing: The Case of Telematics.- Community-Based Wireless Initiatives: The Cooperation Challenge.- Ubiquitous Computing in Practice.

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