Designing mobile business applications for different age groups

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-188

  Gurtner, Sebastian ^a   Reinhardt, Ronny ^a   Soyez, Katja ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption; Age; Digital natives; Greying market; Mobile applications; TAM

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ADOPTION; AGE; DIGITAL NATIVES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; TAM;

COMMERCE;

AGE STRUCTURE; BUSINESS; MARKET CONDITIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; AGE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84905256730     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.06.020     Document Type: Article

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