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When Cell Phones Become Travel Buddies: Social Attribution to Mobile Phones in Travel

In: Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013

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  • Iis Tussyadiah

    (University of Southern Denmark)

Abstract

Applying the computing technology continuum of perspective model into mobile technology, this study investigates tourists’ social attribution to mobile phones while travelling. The tendency to place social attribution to and interact socially with mobile phones in the context of travel is influenced by tourists’ perception of the positive social characteristics of mobile phones (i.e., object attribution) and the intensity of mobile phone use for travel-related purposes at tourism destinations (i.e., circumstance attribution). It was found that tourists’ core selfevaluation did not exert an influence in the process of social attribution to mobile phones. This supports the importance of anthropomorphism in the designing of mobile technology for tourists, in that more intelligent and social phones are potentially more persuasive to influence tourists’ behaviour regardless of their personality.

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  • Iis Tussyadiah, 2013. "When Cell Phones Become Travel Buddies: Social Attribution to Mobile Phones in Travel," Springer Books, in: Lorenzo Cantoni & Zheng (Phil) Xiang (ed.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013, edition 127, pages 82-93, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-36309-2_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36309-2_8
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    Cited by:

    1. Aleksander Groth & Daniel Haslwanter, 2016. "Efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of responsive mobile tourism websites: a mobile usability study," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 201-228, June.
    2. Lidija Lalicic & Christian Weismayer, 2016. "The passionate use of mobiles phones among tourists," Information Technology & Tourism, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 153-173, June.

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