Interface design and the selection of appropriate tasks for small-screen mobile applications are issues critical for mobile commerce. Our earlier research has identified five major task factors that may influence user intention to use handheld devices for wireless applications. These factors are: perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived playfulness, perceived task complexity, and ...

The development of mobile applications has mushroomed in local and foreign industries. This provides a tremendous opportunity for developers. For technopreneur developer, the capital to run the business is one of the biggest problems despite the fact that they may have great competence in the field. The fact that the business has big potential market in Indonesia has invited investors from loca...

One major goal of eGovernment is the provision of an efficient and cost-effective infrastructure enabling access to online resources for all citizens. While at the beginning this goal was basically related to Internet, today there is growing demand for providing access anywhere and anytime also where wired networks are not available. Major drivers of this development are emerging technologies a...

Mobile phones and other mobile devices are fast becoming indispensible in our modern society. According to a recent survey by Frank N. Magid Associates and Upoc.com, 59 percent of Americans age 12 and over (about 140 millions of them) own mobile phones, and that almost a quarter of non-owners plan to buy a mobile phone in the near future [1]. The sales of mobile phones worldwide was 385 million...

Mobile devices are facing several challenges like frequent disconnections and limited resources like processor power, available memory, energy consumption. Mobile cloud computing can improve user experiences by executing applications on resource providers external to the mobile device. In this paper, we discuss recent mobile application models related to cloud computing technologies.

Understanding the context of use is crucial in developing successful applications for mobile devices. However, filtering the relevant information from the vast amount of context data is often challenging. We have noticed that collecting participants’ own stories and utilizing context categories in data collection and analysis pave the way to effective utilization of the most important context i...

In this work we present a mobile computer vision system which simplifies the task of identifying pharmaceutical pills. A single input image of pills on a special markerbased target is processed by an efficient method for object segmentation on structured background. Estimators for the object properties size, shape and color deliver parameters that can be used for querying an online database abo...

In this paper we want to present our work on a smartphone application which aims to provide a mobile monitoring solution for patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. By unobtrusively analyzing the speech signal during phone calls and with a dedicated speech test, we want to be able to determine the severity and the progression of Parkinson’s disease for a patient much more frequently than i...