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A framework for understanding mobile internet motivations and behaviors

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Why do people access information via the mobile Internet? This qualitative study examines a group of active users and proposes a new preliminary framework for understanding their motivations and behaviors.

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      CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      April 2008
      2035 pages
      ISBN:9781605580128
      DOI:10.1145/1358628

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