摘要：In human-computer interaction and computing, mobile phone usage is mostly
addressed from a feature-driven perspective, i.e. which features do a certain
user group use, and/or a usability perspective, i.e. how do they interact with
these features. Although the feature driven and usability focus carry value, it
is not the full picture. There is also an alternative or wider perspective:
mobile phone use is influenced by demographic, social, cultural, and contextual
factors that complicate the understanding of mobile phone usage. Drawing on
concepts and models from sociology, computer-supported cooperative work,
human-computer interaction and marketing, we researched the influence of culture
on mobile phone adoption using interviews and two surveys. The contribution of
this research is a model that includes culture as one of the factors that
influence mobile phone adoption and usage. The proposed model represents the
influence of mediating factors and determining factors on actual mobile phone
use. The proposed model has been evaluated from both a qualitative and
quantitative perspective.
