Communications of the ACM
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Management Science
Nomadicity: anytime, anywhere in a disconnected world
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on mobile computing and system services
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European Journal of Information Systems
Investigating information systems with action research
Communications of the AIS
Negotiating Use: Making Sense of Mobile Technology
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Research Commentary: The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing
Information Systems Research
Understanding mobile handheld device use and adoption
Communications of the ACM - Mobile computing opportunities and challenges
Mobile World: Past, Present and Future (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Mobile World: Past, Present and Future (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Enacting Integrated Information Technology: A Human Agency Perspective
Organization Science
Tales from the police: Rhythms of interaction with mobile technologies
Information and Organization
Human agency in a wireless world: Patterns of technology use in nomadic computing environments
Information and Organization
Exploring enterprise mobility: Lessons from the field
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
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Mobile phones during work and non-work time: A case study of mobile, non-managerial workers
Information and Organization
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
An Office on the Go: Professional Workers, Smartphones and the Return of Place
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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The mobility of human activities entails intrinsic parameters such as the mobility of tasks and technologies, as well as changing conditions underlying mobile computing. The interactions between these parameters bear directly on the appropriation of mobile technologies deployed in these activities. In this paper, I analyze the appropriation of mobile technologies as a function of motives, conditions of use, and technology design properties. The analysis explains the flexibility of mobile computing as a direct function of the appropriation process. The paper contributes to understanding mobile technology use and improving user acceptance by extending existing conceptualizations of technology use. Technology personalization and use in non-organizational contexts are the essentials of the extension, suggesting that mobile computing is a function of use for serving both organizationally-sanctioned and personal motives. Implications for researching mobile technology use and for designing mobile technologies are drawn.