{"title":"Wireless solutions developed for the Australian healthcare: a review","authors":"R. Gururajan, S. Murugesan","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.116","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the emergence of innovative wireless solutions in healthcare, the current status of health information systems (HIS) is primitive and a myriad of problems have crept into the development of these systems. Gartner research shows that the status of the HIS is about 10 years behind the expectation, and other studies have identified several issues in implementing IT healthcare applications. Wireless technologies and portable computing devices could be put into greater use in healthcare to provide timely and quality care and to remedy some of the organisational problems. In this paper, we present a review of wireless solutions in Australian healthcare. Our study reveals that, despite the sophistication and maturity of the wireless technology, healthcare organisations in Australia are far from deploying enterprise-wide wireless solutions, and this is in part due to complexities in deploying them and associated management problems such as the lack of broader vision and drive and support for new initiatives. We also provide some key recommendations for successful wireless implementation in healthcare.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122782726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Web of augmented physical objects","authors":"Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, D. Michelis","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.105","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the growing complexity and connectivity between two former separated interaction spaces - the real and the virtual world. It is our attempt to augment the physical world to a world of digitally augmented objects. Moreover we are looking at real products tagged with digital communication units like embedded systems or the RFID technology. To understand these impacts we need to identify the different levels of connectivity between real and virtual worlds and therefore the relationship of a product with its digital counterpart. As a point of departure we define the terms medium and agent to get a theoretical view on the associations in the real and virtual world. We identify the digital identification of virtually enhanced products as a main part for the creation of a new networked physical world where real products are heavily connected to and with their digital counterparts.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121408639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Merchant adoption of mobile payment systems","authors":"N. Mallat, V. Tuunainen","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.58","url":null,"abstract":"Wide enough acceptance and adoption of mobile payment technologies and systems is a prerequisite for consumer adoption of many, if not most, mobile commerce services. Based on the innovation diffusion theory of Rogers (1995) we present results from two, concurrent sets of empirical data on merchant adoption of mobile payment systems. In addition to the potential advantages of mobile payments we also identified several barriers to their adoption, most clearly in four categories: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity and costs.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124985625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework with a peer fostering mechanism for mobile P2P game development","authors":"Heiko Wolf, Mengqiu Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.5","url":null,"abstract":"The design of ad-hoc, wireless, peer-to-peer applications for small mobile devices raises a number of challenges for the developer, with object synchronisation, network failure and device limitations being the most significant. In this paper, we introduce a framework for peer-to-peer application development that deals with those problems. In contrast to most current literature, we focus on small peer-to-peer networks for gaming applications.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126496109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does team size matter in mobile learning?","authors":"G. Schwabe, Christoph Göth, D. Frohberg","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.35","url":null,"abstract":"Most mobile learning applications support individual users, although experience with similar conventional learning games indicates that teams may be more appropriate. This paper reports on tests of the MobileGame to see whether individual users, teams of two, teams of three or teams of four are more successful. The test was conducted with over 100 natural users. The significantly increased activity level and team-building show that a preference for teams of two rather than individual players would be justified. There is little significant evidence to prefer teams of two to teams of three. However, the data shows that teams of four are suboptimal: this team size decreases fun and immersion as well as (maybe) learning. There is no evidence that these negative effects are balanced by improved team-building. The relatively high success of teams of two leads to a need for more research on dyadic users not only for mobile learning games, but also for other areas such as tourism, health, museum visitors, and entertainment.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"29 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133662224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market acceptance for the satellite DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting) services in Korea","authors":"Y. Sawng, Jeong-Su Lee, Hyun-Soo Han","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.57","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines market acceptance for DMB services, one of the touted new business models in Korea's next-generation mobile communications service market, using diffusion of innovation as the theoretical framework. Market acceptance for DMB services was assessed by predicting the demand for the service using the Bass model. In our estimation of the Bass model, we derived the coefficient of innovation and coefficient of imitation, using actual diffusion data from the mobile telephone service market. The maximum number of subscribers was estimated based on the result of a survey on satellite DMB services. Following the obtained demand prediction models revealed that diffusion took place forming a classical S-curve. Meanwhile, satellite DMB services, reaching demand peak at 6.9 years after the launch, appeared likely to be diffused substantially faster than mobile phone service. This study, as an attempt to measure the market acceptance for the satellite DMB services, a leading next-generation mobile communications service product, using diffusion of innovation theories and based on the result of a survey conducted through one-to-one interviews. We believe that the theoretical framework elaborated in this study and its findings can be fruitfully reused in future attempts to predict demand for new mobile communications service products.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134429537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simulative study on the performance of fast signaling in a mobile IPv6 -wireless LAN based network environment","authors":"N. Jordan, Rainer Huber, J. Fabini","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.11","url":null,"abstract":"The IP is expected to become the main carrier of traffic to mobile and wireless nodes. Convergence of wireless networking and IP networking more and more requires solutions for transporting realtime application data to IP enabled mobile devices and mobile networks. Even though the basic mobile IPv6 protocol suite performs sufficient in macro environments with non realtime traffic, seamless mobility requires some more enhanced protocol procedures in between the mobile node and the involved network entities. Limiting the effect of handovers has the potential to considerably improve handover performance in terms of latency, packet loss, signaling overhead, and scalability. This contribution is going to present an extensive simulation study on the performance of a fast signaling approach in a mobile IPv6 environment. The demonstrated simulation scenario comprises 9 access router and up to 70 mobile nodes that communicate in accordance with the popular IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127359569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul Hawking, A. Stein, John Zeleznikow, Pramod Sharma, D. Nugent, L. Dawson, Susan Foster
{"title":"Emerging issues in location based tourism systems","authors":"Paul Hawking, A. Stein, John Zeleznikow, Pramod Sharma, D. Nugent, L. Dawson, Susan Foster","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.36","url":null,"abstract":"Location based tourism systems (LETS) are computerized systems that depend on the automated detection of the location of a target (e.g. a tourist on the move, a tour vehicle) to either deliver or collect information. Currently mobile phones are seen as the obvious (but not the only) means of information delivery/collection for LBTS. This technology has considerable potential for the Australian tourism industry. This paper aims to assess the state of knowledge regarding LBTS technologies, the potential usefulness of LBTS for the Australian tourism industry, recommend potential future commercial exploitation of LBTS technologies in the Australian tourism industry and crucially to identify emerging issues where further research may be needed.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123807941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A functional framework of ambient iCare e-services for quality aging","authors":"Wei-Lun Chang, I. Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.6","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to the significant scale of the aging population and the cost involved, efforts for driving quality lifestyle of the elderly is crucial. Recently, eCare (electronic care) has been an important issue of health care that utilizes the Web technologies to improve the quality of health care. However, existing aging services (health care or eCare) are mostly oriented to clinical gerontology or neurophysiology of aging. Certain quality dimensions are disregarded such as community involvement, consumer participation and continuous quality improvement. This paper devises a novel notion called iCare (intelligent care) which extends eCare (electronic care) technologies to a domain of ambient e-services that meet the desired quality elements. The objective of iCare is to provide quality e-services to the elderly people anywhere and anytime. In other words, iCare is more oriented toward the behavioral and social angel of quality-aging e-services. We also present an iCare e-services framework that comprises an iCare e-service ontology and an e-service provision quality model. This framework functionally addresses what and how to unfold ambient iCare e-services. That is, the framework implies a future roadmap of quality-aging e-services that can be particularly accounted as affectionate technologies.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124322785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARIS Mobile: helping to define the future of mobile learning","authors":"Guido Grohmann, A. Hofer, G. Martin","doi":"10.1109/ICMB.2005.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMB.2005.21","url":null,"abstract":"The following article deals with the question on how mobile technology is able to change and enhance the distribution of knowledge. After defining the term 'mobile learning', a summarization of how learning processes can be supported electronically is given. Moreover, chances and risks in the intersection between technology-enhanced learning and mobile business are revealed. Apart from that, prospects for the future of mobile teaching environments are scrutinized and delineated, based on the results of a research project carried out by the Institute of Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Deploying the prototype \"ARIS Mobile\", which is embedded in an integrated electronic learning environment, several test scenarios were examined in order to obtain information about matches and mismatches between state-of-the-art technology and actual applicability at the professional level.","PeriodicalId":275276,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122627161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}