Adoption of mobile location-based services with zaltman metaphor elicitation techniques

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-132

  Lee, Tzong Ru ^a   Chen, Shiou Yu ^b   Wang, Shiau Ting ^a   Chang, Shuchih Ernest ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

LBS; Location Based Services; Mobile communications; Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Techniques; ZMET

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

LBS; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; ZALTMAN METAPHOR ELICITATION TECHNIQUES; ZMET;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 57149122849     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2009.021675     Document Type: Article

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