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
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