Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION: Studying the use of mobile technology / Barry Brown -- PART 2: LOCATING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: The mutable mobile: social theory in the wireless world / Geoff Cooper -- Who's watching whom? Monitoring and accountability in mobile relations / Nicola Green -- The region as a socio-technical accomplishment of mobile workers / Eric Laurier -- Mobile communications in the Twenty-First Century city -- PART 3: FROM ETHNOGRAPHY TO USE: Seeing the "rules": preliminary observations of action, interaction, and mobile phone use / Ged M. Murtagh -- Local use and sharing of mobile phones / Alexandra Weilenmann and Catrine Larsson -- Running and grimacing: the struggle for balance in mobile work / John Sherry and Tony Salvader -- Blurring the boundaries: cell phones, mobility, and the line between work and personal life -- PART 4: FROM USE TO DESIGN: Welcome to the wireless world: problems using and understanding mobile telephony / Leysia Palen and Marilyn Salzman -- Framing mobile collaboration and mobile technologies / Elizabeth F. Churchill and Nina Wakeford -- Exploring the relationship between mobile phones and document activity during business travel / Kenton O'Hara, Mark Perry, Abigail Sellen and Barry Brown -- Usability of portable devices: the case of WAP / Vincent Helyar -- The mobile interface: old technologies and new arguments / Richard Harper.

All Ages.