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Mobile Computer Usability [electronic resource] : An Organizational Personality Perspective / by Gamel O. Wiredu.

By: Wiredu, Gamel O [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Progress in IS: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XXI, 211 p. 31 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783642410741.Subject(s): Business | Operations research | Decision making | Information technology | Business -- Data processing | Epistemology | Management information systems | Computer science | Economic sociology | Personality | Social psychology | Business and Management | IT in Business | Epistemology | Personality and Social Psychology | Management of Computing and Information Systems | Operation Research/Decision Theory | Organizational Studies, Economic SociologyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 650 | 658.05 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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. This perspective 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.
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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.

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. This perspective 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.

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