This book records one of the continuous attempts of the IFIP Working Group 8. 2, studying the interaction of information systems and the organization, to explore and understand the shifting boundaries and dependencies between organizational activities and their computer support. The book marks the result of the IFIP WG 8. 2 conference on "Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges. " Since its inception in the late 1970s, IFIP WG 8. 2 has sought to understand how computer-based information systems interact and must be designed as an integrated part of the organizational design. At that time, information systems handled repetitive and remote back-office functions and the main concern was work task design for repetitive input tasks and the potential impact of improved information support on organizational decision-making and structure. The focus of the information system design shifted in the 1980s when computers became part of the furniture and moved into the office. Reflecting this significant change, IFIP WG 8. 2 in 1989 organized a conference dedicated to the design and impact of desktop technology in order to examine how organizational processes and the locus of action changed when the computer was moved into the office. Sixteen years later, we are experiencing another significant change. Computers are now becoming part of our body and sensory system and will move out of the traditional office locations and into the wilderness. Again, IFIP WG 8.
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Höhe: 241 mm
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978-0-387-27560-4 (9780387275604)
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Socio-Technical Studies of Mobility and Ubiquity.- Keynotes.- The Future of Work.- Its the Experience, Not the Price.- The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations of Reality.- Individual Consequences.- Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users.- The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Women in the Information Technology Workforce.- Reflexivity, the Social Actor, and M-Service Domestication: Linking the Human, Technological, and Contextual.- Privacy Considerations in Location-Based Advertising.- Organizational Impact.- Mobility in the Round: Use of Wireless Laptop PCs in Clinical Ward Rounds.- Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel.- Assessing the Mobile-Stationary Divide in Ubiquitous Transport Systems.- The Impact of Ubiquitous Computing Technologies on Business Process Change and Management: The Case of Singapore's National Library Board.- Ubiquitous Computing and the Double Immutability of Remote Diagnostics Technology: An Exploration into Six Cases of Remote Diagnostics Technology Use.- Wireless Grids: Assessing a New Technology from a User Perspective.- Fluid Organizing of Work in the Ubiquitous Information Environment.- The Reconstruction of Portable Computers: On the Flexibility of Mobile Computing in Mobile Activities.- Development Issues.- Mobile Systems Development: A Literature Review.- Designing Context-Aware Interaction: An Action Research Study.- Approaching Information Infrastructure as an Ecology of Ubiquitous Sociotechnical Relations.- The Slight Surprise of Integration.- Innovation and Diffusion of Ubiquitous Information Environments.- Scaling the Wall: FactorsInfluencing the Conditions for Market Entry in the Mobile Data Market.- An International Mobile Security Standard Dispute: From the Actor-Network Perspective.- Ordinary Innovation of Mobile Services.- The Ubiquity and Utility of Resistance: Codesign and Personalization of Information Systems.- Position Papers.- CrackBerries: The Social Implications of Ubiquitous Wireless E-Mail Devices.- Building a Ubiquitous Artifact That Integrates Problem-Solving and Learning Processes to Support Creativity.- Effects of Wireless Mobile Technology on Employee Work Behavior and Productivity: An Intel Case Study.- Panels.- Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Medicine.- Socio-Technical Research Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing: The Case of Telematics.- Community-Based Wireless Initiatives: The Cooperation Challenge.- Ubiquitous Computing in Practice.
