Why don't telephones have off switches? Understanding the use of everyday technologies
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Interacting with Computers
- Vol. 12 (6) , 623-634
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0953-5438(00)00027-8
Abstract
Unlike other technologies, the telephone is unusual in that it cannot be ‘turned off’. Almost uniquely, its design does not incorporate an off switchKeywords
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