Mobile Computer Usability An Organizational Personality Perspective

This book explains how mobile computer usability is shaped by the increasing integration of personal circumstances in organization. It represents an attempt to conceptualize an alternative model of mobile computer usability. It is motivated by the author’

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Gamel O. Wiredu

Mobile Computer Usability An Organizational Personality Perspective

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Gamel O. Wiredu

Mobile Computer Usability An Organizational Personality Perspective The Forward by Dr. Carsten Sørensen

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Gamel O. Wiredu School of Technology Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Achimota, Accra Ghana

ISSN 2196-8705 ISBN 978-3-642-41073-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41074-1

ISSN 2196-8713 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-41074-1 (eBook)

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To my mother Comfort Appiah Twum who has raised a godly generation

Foreword

It seems like an eternity in technology-terms, but in 2013 exactly 40 years ago, Martin Cooper made the World’s first mobile phone call. It took a while before the mobile phone spread across all countries, social strata and every imaginable kind of use. However, when it began, the process was rapid. Back in the 1970s it was estimated that a majority of the World’s population had never made a telephone call. Now it can be estimated that a vast majority has (Google Answers 200