User Experience of Mobile Internet: Analysis and Recommendations

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI)

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 4-23

  Kaasinen, Eija ^a   Roto, Virpi ^b   Roloff, Kristin ^c   Väänänen Vainio Mattila, Kaisa ^d   Vainio, Teija ^d   Maehr, Wolfgang ^e   Joshi, Dhaval ^b   Shrestha, Sujan ^f  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd   (Switzerland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Opera Software ASA ^*  (Norway)

^f BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile Internet; Mobile Services; User Experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001875179     PISSN: 1942390X     EISSN: 19423918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/ijmhci.2009100102     Document Type: Article

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