S. Prashar, Priyanka Gupta, C. Parsad, T. S. Vijay
{"title":"Examining the Impact of Mobile App Features on Impulsiveness: The Moderating Role of Pay More Get More Promotion","authors":"S. Prashar, Priyanka Gupta, C. Parsad, T. S. Vijay","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015113","url":null,"abstract":"With the exponential growth of smart phone users, mobile applications (apps) have become an essential platform for electronic retailers. Considering the research gap in the existing literature on shoppers' impulsiveness in the context of mobile medium, the present study investigates the effect of various antecedents in triggering impulsiveness in mobile apps shopping and inducing continuous purchases. The pioneer study used the structural equation modelling to test the hypothesised research model. It is observed that antecedents like effort expectancy, apps atmosphere, user experience and user satisfaction, price and discount have influence on impulse buying intention of shoppers. The study also confirms the moderating role of 'pay-more-get-more' promotional offers. The paper concludes with theoretical and managerial implications.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45361271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Software Based Vendor Independent WLAN Controller","authors":"Mehmet Ali Erturk, L. Vollero, M. Aydin","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015527","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless hotspots have become popular, due to their ability to provide inexpensive and easy-to-deploy network infrastructures. Controlling and maintaining large-scale wireless infrastructures with traditional methods is complex and error-prone. Hence, it is necessary to use centralised solutions to handle configuration, monitoring and management functions in large-scale wireless hotspots. Existing solutions solve these problems within their hardware ecosystems and are constrained by vendor being depended on hardware and software restrictions. In this study, we propose and evaluate a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) controller built on top of a standard WLAN management protocol and free of any particular hardware and software restrictions. The proposed WLAN controller is a software component based on the control and provisioning of wireless access points (CAPWAPs) protocol. The proposed controller is evaluated by means of a TestBed including a variety of WiFi devices from different vendors to solve a QoS-LB problem.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46483892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khaled A. Alshare, Murad A. Moqbel, Mohammad A. Algarni
{"title":"The impact of trust, security, and privacy on individuals use of the internet for online shopping and social media: a multi-cultural study","authors":"Khaled A. Alshare, Murad A. Moqbel, Mohammad A. Algarni","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines through the lens of expectancy-valence theory the impact of trust, privacy, and security on the decision to use the internet for online shopping and social media. It also investigates the moderating impact of Hofstede's cultural dimensions on the hypothesised relationships. The comparative analysis of 302 surveys from users in the USA and Qatar revealed that trust in internet technology and trust in vendors are the strongest two factors in making decisions to use the internet for online shopping and social media. The results indicated that the cultural dimensions moderated the hypothesised relationships. Surprisingly, Qataris respondents, compared to US respondents, were more influenced by privacy concerns when making decisions to use the internet for online shopping or social media. Implications for researchers and practitioners are reported.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48304678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nan Wang, Yongqiang Sun, Liuhan Zhan, Xiao-Liang Shen
{"title":"Social Attachment, Life Satisfaction, and SNS Continuance: A Dual-Role Perspective","authors":"Nan Wang, Yongqiang Sun, Liuhan Zhan, Xiao-Liang Shen","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015112","url":null,"abstract":"As the sustainability of social networking sites (SNS for short) heavily relies on the content generated by users, it is important to understand the factors driving users' continuous participation....","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45294726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of social interaction on users'social commerce intention","authors":"Tao Zhou","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10014954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10014954","url":null,"abstract":"Social commerce enables users to conduct frequent social interactions, which may strengthen their social relationships and affect their behavioural decision. The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of social interaction on users' social commerce intention. Social interaction consists of human-human interaction and human-computer interaction. Human-human interaction includes informational interaction and emotional interaction, whereas human-computer interaction includes perceived control, perceived responsiveness and perceived personalisation. Structural equation modelling was adopted to conduct data analysis. The results indicated that social interaction affects trust in other members and trust in community, both of which further determine social commerce intention. The results indicated that service providers need to facilitate social interaction in order to promote users' social commerce intention.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41808639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students Expectations from Mobile Devices for Mobile Learning","authors":"Elif Ozturk","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10014815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10014815","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile devices are becoming ever more widely available, with growing functionality, giving students access to educational material anytime and anywhere. Thus, mobile devices have become more attractive for education. However, owing to the nature of mobile devices, such as small screen size, it poses number of challenges to create a usable learning environment. Therefore, it becomes noteworthy to explore usability of these devices and the students' expectations. The present empirical study regarding the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) aimed to explore expectations of students from mobile devices in order to support mobile learning. Data was collected from 30 university students through pre and post interviews while students were conducting a set of e-learning actions, such as uploading files, communicating and acquiring course contents, on a mobile device. With the analyses of interviews using constant comparative approach, expectations of the students were classified into 11 categories which are related to interaction and usability.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48833466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel routing mechanism for IoT based emergency rescue scenarios","authors":"Rashmi Chaudhry, S. Tapaswi","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015529","url":null,"abstract":"Routing in emergency rescue scenarios where nodes around the site are mobile and send the information about the service needs to the concerned service providers through internet connectivity is an important issue. Focus is done by researchers in the respective fields for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) but the scenarios having mobile nodes around the site and having IoT environment have not been addressed. As this type of case includes time constraint-based services, thus a new mechanism predicting mobility of nodes at gateway and multicasting of the required information accordingly, is proposed in this paper. Meta-heuristic-based algorithm, grasshopper optimisation algorithm (GOA) is modified to fit for the prediction and then applied for taking decision related to multicast routing named as grasshopper-based routing and mobility (GRAM) algorithm. This prediction helps the network to send updates to the emergency site with minimal cost and energy consumption. Analysis of results shows the improved performance of the proposed mechanism in terms of both speed and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47303771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing Mobile-Enhanced Cognitive Abilities: Implications for Accounting Jobs","authors":"Hannah Ji, G. Salvendy","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10015524","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research paper is to characterise mobile-enhanced cognitive job requirements and analyse implications on accounting jobs for performance improvement and human resource management. This paper first develops a mobile cognitive task analysis (MCTA) model based on the human information processing theory, which identifies the cognitive abilities that can be enhanced by mobile devices when performing cognitive-intensive jobs. Second, these mobile cognitive abilities are decomposed into 52 measurable items and assessed by surveys. Data were collected for 50 cognitive-oriented jobs from 400 surveys with 368 valid surveys (92% of valid survey). Third, results from factor analysis indicate that there are nine dimensions of mobile-enhanced cognitive abilities. Fourth, the mobile-enhanced cognitive ability topographies on three accounting jobs (Accountant, Auditor, and Tax Accountant) were constructed based on the weighted factor score analysis, which indicate that the accounting jobs have different requirements on the derived mobile-enhanced cognitive ability intensities. Finally, theoretical and practical implications are also presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46470752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavioral Clustering of the Cell Phone Users in Various Country Markets","authors":"Matti J. Haverila, Kai C. Haverila","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10016327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10016327","url":null,"abstract":"Acknowledging Aoki and Downes (2003) cell phone behaviours, the significance of social ecological models and behavioural clustering, the existence of inter-market behavioural clusters in Finland, UAE, China, Canada and New Zealand were investigated. There were significant differences in the cell phone behaviours between the different age groups (in 19 out of 30 variables), genders (20/30) and different countries of residence (30/30) implying that these variables could be used as distinguishing variables regarding the existence of the cell phone behavioural clusters. This implies that the variables age, gender and country of residence do not efficiently discriminate the sample population in terms of the cell phone behaviour. Finally, the behavioural variables were used as the cluster variate in order to discover more viable cluster (segments) in the data set. The paper concludes with a discussion regarding the academic and managerial implications.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46454806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting Mobile Uses for Big-Event Content: The Role of Active Choice, Habit and Structure","authors":"T. Tang, R. Cooper","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2019.10011873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2019.10011873","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile technologies have substantially changed how people consume media content, in particular during big events. This study examined audience's mobile experience with the 'first mobile Olympics' and found that motivations, preference, perceived usefulness, access to media technologies, and media use routine significantly predicted mobile use for big-event content. Additionally, findings suggest that compared to nonusers, mobile Olympics users were more intensely engaged and involved in sports and the Olympics overall, enjoyed a broader range of Olympics sports, and were more accustomed to using online and mobile sources to view media content. Television was still the dominant platform for big-event viewing, however, mobile consumption increased dramatically during the London Olympics, and indicated a need for more personalised, multifaceted programming with mobility and immediacy.","PeriodicalId":14124,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Communications","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43185566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}