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The current proliferation of mobile devices in computing, electronics and communications industries has begun to provide consumers and workers with types of experiences that once required being tethered to a particular piece of technology at a fixed location. Advertisers bombard us with images of executives reclining on sun drenched beaches, cheerfully pecking away at their laptops, or struting, like alpha males through airports checking their stock portfolios on PDAs and mobile phones.
Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra run around the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments. Charles Mingus
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Sherry, J., Salvador, T. (2002). Running and Grimacing: The Struggle for Balance in Mobile Work. In: Brown, B., Green, N., Harper, R. (eds) Wireless World. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0665-4_8
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