Evaluating the effects of the environmental context-of-use on mobile website usability

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, ICMB 2008, Creativity and Convergence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 314-322

  Tsiaousis, Alexandras S ^a   Giaglis, George M ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE SET; CONTEXT OF USE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRACTIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MOBILE BUSINESS; MOBILE HCI; PERCEIVED SATISFACTION; USABILITY STUDY; WEB SITE USABILITY;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTERNET; MOBILE COMPUTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 52149100085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMB.2008.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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