Proceedings of 8th European Assembly on telework (Telework2001)

93A teleworker is an information-processing unit accomplishing tasks; an actor in varying physicaland social contexts; a consumer with a lifestyle; an interpreter <strong>of</strong> socially constructed meanings; anobject and an initiator <strong>of</strong> continuous change. When taking the work home, or to a mobile context,the scope <strong>of</strong> issues influencing the acceptance <strong>of</strong> the technologies gets wider. There is a need fornew a new kind <strong>of</strong> holistic user centered approach; there is a need for contextual understanding;there is a major methodological challenge.ConclusionsTechnological development enables flexible ways <strong>of</strong> distributed working independent <strong>of</strong> thelocation <strong>of</strong> the team members and the nature <strong>of</strong> the work. However, the user interface <strong>of</strong> thesetechnologies is still to be defined. Contextual and holistic approach to users, content adaptation fordifferent terminals and lowering the complexity threshold <strong>of</strong> wireless services and connectivity areamong the most crucial issues in developing acceptable communication tools for telework – andteleleisure.