TY - GEN
T1 - Me-commerce: an infrastructure for personal predictive mobile commerce
T2 - International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2006
AU - Komninos, Andreas
AU - Barrie, Peter
AU - Newman, Julian
AU - Landsburgh, Stuart
N1 - Paper presented at the International Conference on Mobile Business (IMCB06), Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-27 June 2006.
PY - 2007/3/12
Y1 - 2007/3/12
N2 - Given mobile phone penetration statistics and current mobile phone technical specifications, it is apparent that in developed countries, the majority of citizens carry not just mobile phones, but true mobile computing devices. These devices are still primarily used for telephony, although information access is slowly emerging as a popular service on these devices. Despite the availability of network connectivity and device characteristics that make Information Access possible, this is currently generally confined to accessing the WWW. While useful, this method is not the best way of providing information access to mobile devices. This paper discusses current research in the use of mobile services and proceeds by presenting a background on an infrastructure for a focused information access application for mobile commerce. Through this background, we discuss the need for embedding multi-dimensional context awareness into the design of applications that provide dedicated, targeted and personalised information access to users, and describe the dimensional vectors necessary for the acquisition of contextual information. Further to this, the paper highlights the challenges that must be overcome in obtaining contextual information on a mobile computing scenario, as required by the design we propose.
AB - Given mobile phone penetration statistics and current mobile phone technical specifications, it is apparent that in developed countries, the majority of citizens carry not just mobile phones, but true mobile computing devices. These devices are still primarily used for telephony, although information access is slowly emerging as a popular service on these devices. Despite the availability of network connectivity and device characteristics that make Information Access possible, this is currently generally confined to accessing the WWW. While useful, this method is not the best way of providing information access to mobile devices. This paper discusses current research in the use of mobile services and proceeds by presenting a background on an infrastructure for a focused information access application for mobile commerce. Through this background, we discuss the need for embedding multi-dimensional context awareness into the design of applications that provide dedicated, targeted and personalised information access to users, and describe the dimensional vectors necessary for the acquisition of contextual information. Further to this, the paper highlights the challenges that must be overcome in obtaining contextual information on a mobile computing scenario, as required by the design we propose.
KW - application design
KW - mobile computing devices
KW - mobile commerce
U2 - 10.1109/ICMB.2006.29
DO - 10.1109/ICMB.2006.29
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 0769525954
SN - 9780769525952
T3 - International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2006
SP - 39
EP - 47
BT - International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2006
PB - IEEE
Y2 - 26 June 2006 through 27 June 2006
ER -