Adjustment of Daily Activities: the Influence of Smartphone Adoption on the Travel Pattern of Mobile Professionals in the Greater Jakarta Area | Zendy

Gloriani Novita Christin | Zendy; Ofyar Z. Tamin | Zendy; Idwan Santosa | Zendy; Miming Miharja | Zendy

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Adjustment of Daily Activities: the Influence of Smartphone Adoption on the Travel Pattern of Mobile Professionals in the Greater Jakarta Area

Author(s) -

Gloriani Novita Christin,

Ofyar Z. Tamin,

Idwan Santosa,

Miming Miharja

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of engineering and technological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2338-5502

pISSN - 2337-5779

DOI - 10.5614/j.eng.technol.sci.2014.46.4.4

Subject(s) - gadget , information and communications technology , work (physics) , urbanization , restructuring , mobile device , business , marketing , advertising , psychology , engineering , computer science , economic growth , mechanical engineering , finance , algorithm , world wide web , economics , operating system

The swift augmentation in the adoption of smartphones, the gadget that resulted from the convergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), potentially transforms people's life in myriad dimensions. One potential change induced by smartphones, is how people restructure their daily agenda and consecutively influence their travel pattern. To understand it, this study theoretically reviews mobile professional work, smartphone adoption, and how people conduct their mobile interaction, planning and execution of daily activities. Mobile professionals, the cohort of professionals that spend more than 20% of their total working time moving around out of their work environment; they are important beneficiaries of smartphones and have been chosen as the target of this study. Empirical results of mobile professionals´ experiences in the Greater Jakarta Area are presented at this juncture. Furthermore, their adjustment of activities as a dynamic response to receiving extensive information via smartphones is also analysed. The results indicate that there is a strong adjustment of daily activities by mobile professionals. Through those changes, the transformation of daily travel patterns related to the activity is also brought about by the use of this high-end ICT contrivance

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