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The use of wearable devices is becoming more frequent, especially when it comes to monitoring heart rate in physical activity. The use of information from "wearable" devices in the area of "fitness" is a common practice, however, in the context of health and clinical decision making it is not usual to use the information obtained through by such devices. Doubts as to their reliability...
This research attempted to evaluate m-government implementation based on user perspective through qualitative as well as quantitative approach named mixed method approach. After conducting literature study, we defined System Usability Scale (SUS) as quantitative approach and dimension of D&M IS success model as basic for conducting qualitative approach. As case study, this paper presented the...
In recent years, the use of social networking tools in the Gulf region and especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has greatly increased, with the region having one of the highest percentages of social network users globally. The region also has one of the highest percentages of onset diabetes cases globally. There is an increasing interest in the effects of social networks on diabetes management...
This study investigates cultural effects on usability performance of Chinese users to mobile e-commerce websites with different information density. There are many differences in page layout and information density of Chinese and Western mobile e-commerce websites. with a culture-based study method, an experiment was conducted to examine the usability and reliability of the selected Chinese and Western...
In this paper, we study the usability factors on two major mobile payment applications on two different service providers in Thailand. These two applications have a different unique selling point. One is a number one mobile phone service provider which is well known for excellent services and used to own by a formal prime minister. Another one is a famous bank which integrates technology into financial...
The paper presents the idea of Telco 2.0 with an e-health usage scenario. Since numerous elderly people are going missing every year, proposed emergency location service depicts a way in which mobile operators' networks, the Internet and possibilities given by rapid improvement of smart-phones' functionalities can converge in order to relieve the problem. The descriptions are supplemented with sets...
Being Convenient and low-paid, mobile banking financial services based on WAP, SMS or 3G are more and more popular. According to TAM, the reason why bank customers have intention to accept mobile banking financial services were explored from five aspects, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived usability, consume concept and consumer experience. The effects of these factors on the intention...
The goal of the study was to understand how security service personnel experienced the usability, reliability and work performance effects of the current NFC service in use, what were the key development needs related to the information management and communication in their work, and which of the future NFC scenarios were found to be potentially most attractive. The results of the study show that...
Due to the advances in cellular devices and mobile technologies, now it has become possible to host Web Services (WS) on mobile devices. Web services have a broad range of service clients, whereas mobile phones have a large and expanding number of user bases. Therefore, combining these two trends by exploiting mobile devices as service providers is a promising next step. However, the usability, reliability,...
Due to its potential to drive the next wave of e-commerce, mobile commerce has attracted much attention from both practitioners and researchers. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to study the adoption and use of m-commerce from the information processing perspective. Based on the information processing framework, we propose that the fit between the information processing need of m-commerce...
Usability and user interfaces play a huge and important role in todaypsilas mobile application. Besides a good design, acceptable performance, scalability, and robustness, a mobile application needs to be easy to use and, to some extent, customizable. To create a system able to custom the mobile applicationpsilas user interface and mirror it immediately to final users is the purpose of this article...
This is an introduction to the proceedings of the MWS 2007 workshop held at EDOC 2007. It first explains the motivation for and background of the workshop. Then, it contains a short description of the keynote, each long and short peer-reviewed paper, and the discussion session "impact of various execution environments on middleware for web services". After the closing statements, MWS 2007...
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