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Mobile commerce is gaining significant importance in the recent years as an alternative option of e-commerce for the moving user. The mobile applications through which m-commerce takes place operate in highly dynamic environments with diverse characteristics and under varying conditions. The characteristics and conditions of these environments -- called context -- should be exploited in order to provide...
Under the dynamic environment where competition of new service development is significantly increased, most of new mobile services are developed based on the analysis of everyday-life of user. Therefore, understanding of user context can provide a wide scope of information including location, time, purpose, or social setting that can provide significant information to develop new mobile application...
Mobile Business has extensive application prospects, and consumer participation is the key to the development of mobile business. In this paper, a model of factors affecting trust in mobile commerce is proposed. Through questionnaires and collected 310 valid questionnaires were carried out using SEM Analysis. Study confirms our model.
Compared with the traditional E-Commerce website, the M-Commerce website provides an extensive Internet accessibility and a capability of committing transactions anytime and anywhere to users with mobile devices. Limited knowledge about the M-Commerce website environment, false perception of website construction as a costly and arduous task, and lack of feasible assisting solutions for website construction...
Utilizing mobile applications in the area of industrial field service promises several benefits, especially improved process support due to a tight integration of mobile workers and tailored information support. In this paper, we describe four mobile service business patterns derived from two industrial case studies. The first case study deals with the seamless integration of service engineers, while...
The creating of reusable mobile solutions is influenced by many factors. The platforms are arbitrary, the target audience can be new to mobile software, and the devices are not always online and restricted in their computational capabilities. This paper presents an archetype pattern- and REST-driven approach for building customizable, flexible, and efficient mobile business applications. Furthermore,...
Information filtering and personalization are central to the viability of many advanced connected services that are currently being developed for mobile consumer electronic devices. The usability of these services is closely tied to their ability to offer relevant, context sensitive information while shielding the user from both information overload and missing information that she/he did not know...
The mobile Internet business is entering a new era in Japan with the emerging revenue-generating mobile social games. Mobile social games expose some region-specific different behaviors. This is a rich source of new perspectives of cultural behaviors. The analysis of the cultural perspective is shifting its focus from the real-world behavior to the virtual-world behavior. The author proposes a new...
The purpose of this paper is to indicate how Living Labs (LL) are organized and applied as part of the research mandate of the SAP Research Pretoria in South Africa. This will be done by exploring existing definitions of LLs. This is followed by the identification of four dimensions of living labs which is then used to evaluate three existing LLs to indicate the relevance for choosing a LL as methodology...
Although the mobile shopping is convenient for our daily life, some people still discontinue their usage of mobile shopping approach even they already have the experience. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors of mobile shopping continuance. With the survey method, 500 college students of mobile phone users were surveyed and 244 effective questionnaires were obtained for survey analysis...
The topic of mobile services has piqued the interest of practitioners. Mobile service providers invest many resources to provide mobile services of higher quality in the hope of gaining more business opportunities and higher customer satisfaction. They often increase the service quality through the use of personalization, i.e., generating customized mobile content for each individual. Despite the...
We describe a framework to exploit social network connections for targeted campaigns delivery in order to support local retailers in enhancing customer communication. In order to demonstrate its feasibility we implemented a client application enabling end users to find relevant coupons and offers and retrieve them after completing specific tasks. By integrating this application into a server infrastructure...
Rich and attractive mobile services have been developed as result of technological advances and emergent mobile business models. Product launching has been improved through packaging and orchestration of services components using service composition techniques. The design of charging systems, which can explore partner information, is a strong enabler for mobile composite services ecosystems. The authors...
With continued expansion of the Mobile Internet users, Mobile Internet has become an important channel for informational goods transacting, and such content providers have indeed become popular with consumers. Recent research has made significant advances in the understanding of various Internet marketing issues. However, an important problem for content providers has remained virtually untouched,...
Web search providers have developed a highly successful business model, which has rendered them amongst some of the most profitable companies operating on the internet. Many observers regard mobile search as the next new big market. In contrast to search on PCs, however, the provision of search on mobiles is still in its infancy. In order to shed light on the real prospects of mobile search we performed...
M2M communications are capturing the attention of many stakeholders from application developers to mobile operators. Recent initiatives of the GSMA and of mobile operators show their interest in finding new sources of revenue through the adoption of wireless connectivity in a wide range of devices. A route to market these M2M devices can thus involve creating a platform of services that adds value...
Constraints, diversity and evolution characterize mobile data services. These factors provide persistent challenges to the development of mobile data services. Recent challenges from Apple AppStore and Google Android also provide a new cornerstone for the construction of mobile ecosystems. Mobile data services continue to change their business models to cope with technological and business model evolution...
Location-based Services (LBS) afford a means of positioning, tracing and tracking individuals and objects, for purposes such as emergency management, employee monitoring, and consumer convenience. This paper reviews the present LBS setting and expected developments in this space, with a particular focus on the implications for Australian research and regulatory efforts. The origins of LBS in the mobile-commerce...
This paper reviews what theoretical models of technology evaluation are used in mobile work context. We examine how these models are extended to take mobility and organisational contexts into account. We found that most of the extensions were related to mobile task and mobile technology aspects but also costs, impacts and organisational viability were added. The paper provides discussion on the strengths...
Foreign students who live and study in China encounter many problems in Chinese language learning, as language learning often correlates with background knowledge which varies from country to country caused by cultural and social differences in terms of distinct public policies and services. With the increasing number of foreign students in China and the great demand for mobile Chinese language learning...
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