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Using electronic transaction instead of manual ones is an easy way to facilitate business process automation. A cost effective option of introducing electronic transactions in public systems with high number of users is applying contactless cards and the related contactless infrastructure. The spreading of Near Field Communication (NFC) compatible mobile devices made relatively easy the implementation...
Since smart phones have become popular, intelligent adaptive services were more highly demanded. The intelligent synthetic character on a mobile phone is one of the promising services. It is difficult to develop an intelligent synthetic character on the mobile environment due to its dynamism and complexity. This paper proposes a method to generate a synthetic character's behaviors using contexts inferred...
This research summary outlines results achieved by Hamburg University during its participation in the EU NoE “S-Cube” focusing on process instance migration. It includes corresponding results in the context of dynamic and mobile environments (as, e.g., provided by mobile web services, NFC-aware process execution, future-context-aware applications or interactive workflows) and focuses on the management...
With the rapid development of mobile Internet, more and more companies transfer their business to M-Commerce, and more and more users make consumption payment through mobile devices. However, the diversity of mobile devices and the security of payment are always the key factors that restrict the development of M-Commerce. This paper proposes a secure mobile payment solution that can be integrated...
The paper aims to develop a model that can explain the critical determinants that influencing the behavioral intention (BI) of mobile commerce (m-commerce) in collectivist cultures such as the Arab culture; particularly Jordan. The proposed model employs the technology acceptance model (TAM). TAM has been augmented with subjective norms (SN) from the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). The augmented...
Mobile phones have a long history beginning in 1950s, with hand-held devices since 1983. Despites this long history, there are not many studies focusing on consumers' behavior towards mobile phones, particularly in Malaysia. Research on consumers' purchase intention in telecommunication devices is mainly conducted overseas. This paper focuses on the effects of brand image, product knowledge, product...
With the advancement of information communication technology, mobile devices find its utility growing gradually for various business domains. Moreover, there has been considerable growth of business opportunities over social media provides a win-win situation for both business stakeholders and end users. Therefore, it is believed that further research on the usage of mobile services through social...
Mobile devices have become popular to access the information on-the-move. However, the physical restrictions of mobile devices such as display size and input capabilities and the changes of users' contexts may affect the users' information needs and search behaviors. In order to design a new search service which takes mobile users' situation into consideration, it is essential to understand search...
The increasingly high penetration rate of mobile phones indicates that mobile commerce has become the hottest issue around the world. However, in Taiwan, the adoption rate of mobile commerce still is low. Very few previous studies have explored how to influence mobile phone users to adopt mobile commerce. The purpose of this study is to identify key success factors for mobile commerce in Taiwan. In...
Creativity is one of the major education reforms in the world nowadays. All advanced countries pay more attention on the inspiration of students¡¦ creative thinking ability. With the creative thinking ability, it is important to university students before entering the workplace. Thus, the study mainly proposed a learning model with mind mapping strategy embedded in mobile device for a business planning...
The two most important drivers of today's telecommunication market are the development of mobile services and cloud computing. These two trends converge in cloud mobile services what is called cloud gaming. The challenges of delivering mobile cloud applications are not only on the technical side, they also concern the implementation of the accurate business model. The Kusanagi project is an end-to-end...
With the rapid development of mobile device and wireless network, mobile device becomes an excellent choice for people to access social life here and there all around the clock. However, most of widely used mobile social network systems cannot make the best of mobile device's features and hardly satisfied persons' demands in dynamic realistic social network. So this paper proposes a Theme-based Mobile...
This paper proposes a novel mobile community service platform that enables a mobile phone to promote collaborations that are more advanced. Our research contributes in two folds. First, as a service design framework, a model of a mobile community is defined in which each member has a role and corresponding task to achieve a common goal. Second, the proposed platform provides a running and development...
This article envisions the use of context-awareness to improve single sign-on solutions (SSO) for mobile users. The attribute-based SSO is expected to increase users' perceived ease of use of the system and service providers' authentication security of the application. From these two features we derive two value propositions for a new business model for mobile platforms. The business model can be...
The rapid development in mobile commerce not only offers opportunities for business, but also makes higher security demands in the process of e-commerce transactions. It's true that authentication is the key point to ensure mobile commerce safety. This paper analyzes the existing problems in current mobile commerce authentication and proposes a strategy to a unified mobile commerce authentication...
In online map service for mobile users, it's necessary to provide different map data according to different application scenarios. For a given scenario, we can preprocess the map data to satisfy the online and mobile requirements. This paper proposes a rule-based pretreatment mechanism for online mobile map data which using a novel mobile map data format Byte-Map. Through the use of pretreatment rules...
This study identifies factors that influence user acceptance of m-banking in South Africa and Nigeria. This research is aimed at examining the relative differences/similarities of mobile banking usage in South Africa and Nigeria. Several studies on the acceptance of m-banking have produced various results across different countries. This can be accredited to the dissimilar socio-cultural composition...
Mobile Internet is developed very fast. This paper analyzes the definition of mobile Internet and the industry development status, focuses on the consumers' behavior of college mobile phone students in Beijing area. Through the questionnaire survey of college students, their basic status, spending habits and consumer behavior characteristics were investigated and studied. On this basis, the impact...
Modern smart phones have provided users countless opportunities to access, process and store data in various ways and formats. Inevitably, the user himself has started storing personal data too in the mobile phone. Drawing results from a study we realized, in a sample of 7172 students in 17 Universities of 10 Eastern and Southern Europe countries, we are initially providing useful insight into the...
Mobile services are characterized by multi-actors, cross-industries, integrated, dynamics, interaction, and requirement uncertainty. These features make us hard to calculate their service value. This paper construct a network relationship model of actors in mobile service, study the ecosystem formed by these actors, and ecological level. Then we take mobile phone TV, the most typical service within...
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