Empirical Assessment on User Acceptance of Mobile Applications Deployment

Abstract

Nowadays, mobile phones are widespread. However, the development, distribution and installation of software on these end devices is a complex problem due to the very heterogeneous landscape of mobile end devices (especially with regard to software platforms, operational concepts and functionality), and the wide range of technical expertise on the side of the end user. Up to now, there are no empirical surveys on the deployment of software on mobile end devices that allow users to understand and assess not only practical usage situations but also further imaginable distribution instruments. Such a study was carried out on a mobile application which users installed on their own mobile phones via Bluetooth.