"Oh! my battery was drained because i forgot to press the end call button": A small-scale study on Malaysian senior citizen's perception towards mobile phone and its services

21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunication, HFT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-38

  Wong, Chui Yin ^a   Thwaites, Harold ^a   Khong, Chee Weng ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT CREATORS; DEVELOPING NATIONS; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; ITS SERVICES; MARKET SEGMENTATION; MOBILE OPERATORS; RESEARCH STUDIES; SENIOR CITIZENS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84883305799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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