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Mobile attachment: emotional attachment towards mobile devices and services

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MobileHCI '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1613858.1613975

Published: 15 September 2009 Publication History

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In my thesis I address the topic of mobile attachment. I provide a theoretical framework for mobile attachment together with influencing factors that indicate user's emotional attachment (EA) to mobile devices and services. I investigate how the concept of user experience (UX) and EA are linked together and I outline how user behavior driven experience sampling can be exploited to measure mobile attachment. My research will result in design suggestions how the creation of EA to mobile devices and services can be facilitated.

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MobileHCI '09: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

September 2009

473 pages

ISBN:9781605582818

DOI:10.1145/1613858

Conference Chair:
Reinhard Oppermann
Fraunhofer FIT
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Program Chairs:
Markus Eisenhauer
Fraunhofer FIT
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Matthias Jarke
RWTH Aachen + Fraunhofer FIT
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Volker Wulf
University of Siegen + Fraunhofer FIT

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 15 September 2009

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MobileHCI '09: 11th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

September 15 - 18, 2009

Bonn, Germany

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