Mobile information systems for the private everyday life

Issue title: Improving Quality of Service in Mobile Information Systems, Services and Networks

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bohl, Oliver | Manouchehri, Shakib | Winand, Udo

Affiliations: University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany. E-mail: {bohl, manouchehri, winand}@wirtschaft.uni-kassel.de

Abstract: Despite the high penetration of the private sector in mobile devices, only few applications and services based on mobile technologies are used, and those are rather trivial. This article suggests an approach for the identification of alternatives for the support of processes of everyday life by establishing services based on mobile applications, mobile devices and infrastructures for mobile dispositions. Therefore, a framework for the identification, as well as criteria for the analysis of potential fields of application is discussed. Exemplary benchmarks for selected basic processes in private everyday life visualise the suggested framework, which can be adapted for individual methodical analyses.

Keywords: Mobile services, mobile information systems, strategies for the creation of mobile services, private everyday life

Journal: Mobile Information Systems, vol. 3, no. 3-4, pp. 135-152, 2007