submitted to Cashless Society Roundtable, April 2013, Dublin Barriers to Further Commercialization of NFC Pilots in Western Europe Tatjana Apanasevic PhD Student Wireless@KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista, Sweden; [email protected]

Ranging from booking to check-in to baggage drop to boarding to border crossing to baggage recovery, the trend is irrevocable and subject to significant growth. This growth goes both for increased use of mature self-service options, such as for check-in, but also for new services such as self-service bagdrop. Emerging technologies, like Near Field Communication (NFC), is also likely to play a r...

This paper explores NFC based applications adequate for the use in retail stores and analyses the influence that these could have on the prevailing customer shopping process. It emphasizes the fact that NFC could provide shoppers with more benefits beyond faster payments. On the one hand, NFC based rebate coupons and loyalty cards could further accelerate the check-out process. On the other han...

In this paper we present the advantages and possibilities of a modular test platform for the evaluation of security protocols in NFC applications. Furthermore, we also depict some practical implementation results of this modular system. The scope of the platform is to provide a highly modular system. Adding or removing certain functionality can be done without the need of rebuilding the entire ...

PURPOSE The evidence suggests that a longitudinal training of communication skills embedded in a rich clinical context is most effective. In this study we evaluated the acquisition of communication skills under such conditions. METHODS In a longitudinal design the communication skills of a randomly selected sample of 25 trainees of a three-year postgraduate training programme for general prac...

the concept of communication apprehension and emotional intelligence has been indicated as two concepts which are new in the field of psychology, communication and organizational behavior. this article has tried to study the relationship between communication apprehension levels and emotional intelligence between the staff of islamic republic of iran broadcasting. the population of the study in...

In February 2009, the US Congress passed a US$787 billion stimulus package designed to put the country on the road to economic recovery. Thereafter, managing ‘the stimulus story’ became, as Time magazine reported, ‘a full-time White House preoccupation’ (Scherer, 2009: 31). Obama and his team understood that without a concerted effort to communicate the plan, it would almost certainly fail in t...

In the past few years, technology for children and disabilities has proliferated thanks to the development of more and more inexpensive mobile technology and to the availability of freedownloadable software applications. However, at our knowledge a multisensory teaching application for both normal and disabled children still lacks in this landscape. In this work we describe the design and devel...