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Accentuated Factors of Handheld Computing

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The recent years of rapid development of mobile technologies create opportunities for new user groups in the mobile workforce to take advantage of information systems (IS). However, to apprehend and harness these opportunities for mobile IS, it is crucial to fully understand the user group and the mobile technology. In this chapter, we deductively, from previous research on aspects on mobility, synthesize a tentative analytical framework capturing factors accentuated in mobile IS design. We evaluate the framework based on criteria of completeness, distinctiveness and simplicity. Eventually, these two steps develop the framework towards a theoretical contribution as theory for describing handheld computing from a designer’s perspective. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were made and the tentative framework was elaborated and confirmed.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Lund School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Ole Römers väg 6, SE-22363, Lund, Sweden

    Bo Andersson

  2. Center for Applied ICT, Copenhagen Business School, Howitzvej 60, 2000, Fredriksberg, Denmark

    Stefan Henningsson

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  1. Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Dept. Computer Science, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Rob Pooley

  2. Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Dept. Computer Science, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Jennifer Coady

  3. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Christoph Schneider

  4. Monash University Fac. Information Technology, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  5. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  6. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

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Andersson, B., Henningsson, S. (2013). Accentuated Factors of Handheld Computing. In: Pooley, R., Coady, J., Schneider, C., Linger, H., Barry, C., Lang, M. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4951-5_24

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