A member interface approach to a mobile virtual community of practice

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 446-461

  Kawash, Jalal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; EXtensible Markup Language; Finite state machines; Mobile virtual communities; Usability; User interfaces; XML

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERFACE STATES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY; XML;

CLIENT SIDES; COLLABORATION; EXTENSIBLE MARK-UP LANGUAGE (XML); MOBILE COMMUNITY; MOBILE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; USABILITY; WIRELESS HAND-HELD DEVICES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78651570576     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2009.025218     Document Type: Article

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