Contextual Design of Mobile Services to Support Knowledge Workers in Library Settings

Author

Kurti, Arianit ; Milrad, Marcelo ; Alserin, Fredrik

Author_Institution

Center for Learning & Knowledge Technol., Vaxjo Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 July 2006

Firstpage

375

Lastpage

377

Abstract

In this paper we report the results of our work exploring the design and implementation of mobile services to support knowledge workers. The purpose of these efforts was to investigate and identify how contextual information extracted from everyday activities can be used to generate the content of a mobile service to be delivered to smart phones. In this particular effort, 10 librarians from Vaxjo public library participated in this trial during a period of 30 days. Generally, the service we developed integrated very well into the librarians´ daily work

Keywords

information dissemination; information retrieval; knowledge acquisition; mobile computing; mobile handsets; public libraries; context awareness; contextual design; contextual information; knowledge workers; library; mobile services; smart phones; Context awareness; Context-aware services; Data mining; Educational technology; Libraries; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Smart phones; Ubiquitous computing; Usability; applications; context awareness.; contextual design; mobile learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kerkrade

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2632-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652449

Filename

1652449