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
Link To Document :
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