• DocumentCode
    1855271
  • Title

    Profiling the Mobile Phone Users and Their Relationship to the Internet Services and Portals

  • Author

    Papaioannou, Eugenia ; Georgiadis, Christos K. ; Kourouthanassis, Panos E. ; Giaglis, George M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Inf., Univ. of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    20-21 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    313
  • Lastpage
    319
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between mobile consumers´ attitude and their demographic characteristics. New variables such as Personal Technological Innovativeness and Mobile Phone Design are constructed and their association with some demographic attributes is examined. Further, the research explores to what degree mobile Internet users have exploited the potential of mobile phones. A cluster analysis is made for profiling mobile Internet adopters in Greece. Finally, conclusions for grouping the users based on their characteristics are extracted.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web services; mobile computing; mobile handsets; pattern clustering; portals; Internet services; cluster analysis; demographic characteristics; mobile consumer attitude; mobile phone design; mobile phone users; personal technological innovativeness; portals; profiling mobile Internet adopters; Clustering algorithms; Educational institutions; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Technological innovation; cluster analysis; mobile Internet; mobile adopters; user profiles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mobile Business (ICMB), 2011 Tenth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Como
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0497-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-4434-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMB.2011.18
  • Filename
    6047084