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Dealing with Mobility: Understanding access anytime, anywhere
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@MISC{Perry_dealingwith,
author = {Mark Perry and Kenton O'Hara and Abigail Sellen and Barry Brown and Richard Harper},
title = {Dealing with Mobility: Understanding access anytime, anywhere },
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The rapid and accelerating move towards the adoption and use of mobile technologies has increasingly provided people and organisations with the ability to work away from the office and on the move. The new ways of working afforded by these technologies are often characterised in terms of the access to information and people 'anytime, anywhere'. This paper problemarises the rhetoric of 'access anytime, and anywhere' and presents a study of mobile workers that highlights different facets of access to remote people and information, and different facets of anytime, anywhere. Four key factors in mobile work are identified from the study: the role of planning, working in 'dead time', accessing remote technological and informational resources, and monitoring the activities of remote colleagues. By reflecting on these issues, we can better understand the role of technology and artefact use in mobile work and identify the opportunities for the development of appropriate technological solutions to support mobile workers.
