Going wireless: behavior & practice of new mobile phone users

By Leysia Palen, Marilyn C. Salzman, E. Youngs. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2000

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We report on the results of a study in which 19 new mobile phone users were closely tracked for the first six weeks after service acquisition. Results show that new users tend to rapidly modify their perceptions of social appropriateness around mobile phone use, that actual nature of use frequently differs from what users initially predict, and that comprehension of service-oriented technologies can be problematic. We describe instances and features of mobile telephony practice. When in use, mobile phones occupy multiple social spaces simultaneously, spaces with norms that sometimes conflict: the physical space of the mobile phone user and the virtual space of the conversation.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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