Electronic mail and weak ties in organizations
Office Technology and People - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Cyberspace
Connections: new ways of working in the networked organization
Connections: new ways of working in the networked organization
Being digital
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
Time and information technology: monochronicity, polychronicity and temporal symmetry
European Journal of Information Systems
Moving out of the meeting room: exploring support for mobile meetings
Proceedings of the Sixth European conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Exploring support for knowledge management in mobile work
Proceedings of the Sixth European conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Cyperspace: The World in the Wires
Cyperspace: The World in the Wires
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
The Strength and the Impact of New Media
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 5 - Volume 5
Field-based mLearning: who wants what?
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
EACE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 annual conference on European association of cognitive ergonomics
Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
A Framework for the Study of Customer Interface Design for Mobile Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
EATIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and information systems
Managing work at several places: a case of project work in a nomadic group of students
Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Cognitive ergonomics: invent! explore!
Investigating homeworkers' usage of mobile phones for overcoming feelings of professional isolation
International Journal of Mobile Communications
MoBiS-Q: a tool for evaluating the success of mobile business services
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Exploring enterprise mobility: Lessons from the field
Information-Knowledge-Systems Management - Enterprise Mobility: Applications, Technologes and Strategies
A comparative anatomy of mobile enterprise applications: Towards a framework of software reuse
Information-Knowledge-Systems Management - Enterprise Mobility: Applications, Technologes and Strategies
User requirements of mobile technology: A summary of research results
Information-Knowledge-Systems Management - Enterprise Mobility: Applications, Technologes and Strategies
Examining the success factors for mobile work in healthcare: A deductive study
Decision Support Systems
The impact of use context on mobile services acceptance: The case of mobile ticketing
Information and Management
On a Mission without a Home Base: Conceptualizing Nomadicity in Student Group Work
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Cooperative Systems Design: Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations -- Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication
Human agency in a wireless world: Patterns of technology use in nomadic computing environments
Information and Organization
Complexity and workload factors in virtual work environments of mobile work
EHAWC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Ergonomics and health aspects of work with computers
Mobile service experiences: qualitative study with a broader perspective
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Time to revisit mobility in mobile HCI?
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Modeling and analysis of mobile service processes by example of the housing industry
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Development and validation of an instrument to measure user perceived service quality of mHealth
Information and Management
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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During the last two decades of the twentieth century we have seen various transformations in our society as a whole. In particular, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have played a critical role in this transformation process. Because of their pervasiveness and our intensive use of them, ICTs have changed our ways of living in virtually all realms of our social lives. ICT is of course not the sole factor of this transformation; various "old" technologies have also played a significant part. Modern transportation technologies, for example, have become dramatically sophisticated in terms of effectiveness and usefulness since the early twentieth century. The train and airline infrastructures are highly integrated with ICTs such as electronic reservation systems and traffic control systems. It is therefore important to recognize that the fundamental nature of technological revolution in the late twentieth century is the dynamic and complex interplay between old and new technologies and between the reconfiguration of the technological fabric and its domestication [6, 27, 32, 40].This paper concerns the concept of mobility, which manifests such a transformation of our social lives combining new and old technologies. It is now widely argued that our life styles have become increasingly mobile in the sense that the speed of transportation and hence geographical reach within a given time span is dramatically augmented by modern technological developments and sophistication such as train and airplane systems. However, in spite of the upsurge of concern with mobility in our social lives, current research perspectives define the notion of mobility quite narrowly, exclusively in terms of humans' independency from geographical constraints. For example, Makimoto and Manners [28] argue that within the next decade or so, a large part of the facilities and tools at home and in the office will be reduced enough in size to be carried, making people "geographically independent" (p. 2) and that people who use such mobile technologies, it is claimed, will be "free to live where they want and travel as much as they want" (p. 6). Their arguments for the significance of mobility, or nomadicity, are clearly confined to the corporeal characteristic of human movement freed from geographical constraints thanks to mobile computing technologies and services such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Likewise, most of research on mobility in the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) field has been showing the same tendency [e.g. 5, 11].Considering such a confined situation of the debates on mobility looking only at human geographical movement, we reconsider in this paper the notion of mobility and try to expand our perspective towards it. To do so, we argue that "being mobile" is not just a matter of people traveling but, far more importantly, related to the interaction they perform --- the way in which they interact with each other in their social lives. New configurations of social-technical relationships resulting from the diffusion of ICTs afford various dimensions of mobility to humans' interactivity with others in their social lives. We here suggest expanding the concept of mobility by looking at three distinct dimensions of human interaction; namely, spatial, temporal and contextual mobility. These three dimensions of human interaction have been dramatically mobilized by intensive use of ICTs, especially mobile technologies, in our social lives in general and work environments in particular. In the following, we will discuss each of these three dimensions in detail and implications for future debates on mobility will be drawn.