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About Appropriation of Mobile Applications - The Applicability of Structural Features and Spirit

Författare

  • Bo Andersson

Summary, in English

This paper presents early findings of a study on how users appropriate a computerised mobile system

designed to administer service orders. The theoretical lens used was Adaptive Structuration Theory

(AST) and focused on Structural Features, Spirit and Appropriation of Structure. In order to

accomplish the purpose, two aspects were to be considered: the system’s structure and the user’s

appropriation, because the structure of a system affects the appropriation of the system. The study was

conducted at a large international company’s Swedish subsidiary operating in heavy industry,

machines and transportation. The methods used were a blend of several instruments, such as

analysing documents, observations and interviews. These qualitative empirical data were analysed

from the perspective of AST. The initial results demonstrate that some of the tested constructs within

AST are not applicable to computerised mobile information and therefore some adjustments must be

made in AST to fit the mobile computing domain. In order to test these results further, at least two

possible strategies lie ahead: either a closer study of the underlying assumptions of Structural

Features and Spirit or a broader test of more of the propositions in the AST framework.

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

ECIS 2008 Proceedings

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

Ämne

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • Adaptive Structuration Theory
  • AST
  • Mobile Information Systems
  • Nomadic
  • Nomadic Systems
  • Appropriation
  • Structural Features
  • Spirit

Conference name

16th European Conference on Information Systems, 2008

Conference date

2008-06-09 - 2008-06-11

Conference place

Galway, Ireland

Status

Published