Interacting with the telephone
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Discovery and Integration of Mobile Communications in Everyday Life
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The Gift of the Gab?: A Design OrientedSociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
An analysis of young people's use of and attitudes toward cell phones
Telematics and Informatics
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Why are mobile phones annoying?
Behaviour & Information Technology
Motivations for using the mobile phone for mass communications and entertainment
Telematics and Informatics
Gender and student-status differences in cellular telephone use
International Journal of Mobile Communications
A multi-national study of attitudes about mobile phone use in social settings
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Assessing mobile phone communication utility preferences in a social support network
Telematics and Informatics
Activity-aware map: identifying human daily activity pattern using mobile phone data
HBU'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Human behavior understanding
Perceptions of public mobile phone conversations and conversationalists
Telematics and Informatics
Content consumption cartography of the paris urban region using cellular probe data
Proceedings of the first workshop on Urban networking
Mobile phone accessibility values for users with disabilities
International Journal of Mobile Communications
When lifestyle becomes behavior: A closer look at the situational context of mobile communication
Telematics and Informatics
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The widespread and continued growth of mobile telephony within society means that protocols regarding acceptable public use are being continually redefined. In order to understand the different needs and motivations of mobile phone users and to assist with the development of effective policy, it is important first to consider the phone-related behaviours with which people are comfortable and those with which they become annoyed. A survey of 184 young adults was undertaken to explore the relationships between their comfort making and receiving mobile phone calls in different social contexts, their affective responses to public mobile phone use by others, and how such factors relate to key personal attributes and specific beliefs regarding calling behaviour. Mobile phone users differed in the extent to which they felt comfortable making and receiving calls in different social contexts and were less annoyed by others using mobile phones in locations where they themselves felt most comfortable making calls. Three important influences which predicted behavioural measures of phone use were found to be views regarding the application of public restrictions, desire to remain personally contactable and 'social usability' or anxiety regarding phone use in the presence of others. User personality and individual attributes such as age and gender were also found to be differentially associated with some aspects of phone-related behaviours.