Critical success factors for context-aware mobile communication systems

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 290-307

  Sun, Jun ^a   Koong, Kai S ^a   Poole, Marshall Scott ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Speech Communication Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Context awareness; Contextualisation; Critical success factors; Interactivity; Mobile communications; Personalisation; User centred design

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; CONTEXTUALISATION; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS; INTERACTIVITY; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PERSONALISATION; USER-CENTRED DESIGN;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; RADIO BROADCASTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DESIGN;

EID: 62449261141     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2009.023673     Document Type: Article

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