Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Dealing with mobility: understanding access anytime, anywhere
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Expanding the 'mobility' concept
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin
Discovery and Integration of Mobile Communications in Everyday Life
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway
Perpetual contact
From Freedom to Involvement: On the Rhetoric of Mobility in HCI Research
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 1 - Volume 01
Moving to get ahead: local mobility and collaborative work
ECSCW'03 Proceedings of the eighth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Balancing work, life and other concerns: a study of mobile technology use by Australian freelancers
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Usability evaluation of a commercial pocket PC phone: a pilot study
Mobility '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology
OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
Deliberate interactions: characterizing technology use in Nairobi, Kenya
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The phone rings but the user doesn't answer: unavailability in mobile communication
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
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The paradigm of "access, anytime, anywhere" has been critiqued within the mobile HCI literature as a broad assumption that simplifies understandings of actual work practice, and as an example of rhetoric that allows researchers to ignore the temporal aspects of mobility. The key aspect of technology use that remains unclear, however, when discussing this paradigm is the complexity of the concept "anytime, anywhere" from the perspective of the user. This paper addresses this gap by discussing findings from an empirical study of freelance workers, across both work and social contexts, in which availability emerged as an important concern for participants. This paper explores the ways in which freelancers use their mobile devices to manage their availability to others. Finally, we also consider implications for the ways in which mobility is conceptualised within the mobile HCI literature.