The Current State of Commercial Location-based Service Offerings in Australia
Location-based services (LBS) provide geographic data for a variety of purposes, and through numerous devices such as mobile phones, gPS navigation systems,palm pilots and increasingly desktop computers.Presently, there is scant information relating to the current state of the LBS market,specifically location-based service applications in Australia.This study makes use of usability context analyses to examine Australias three leading telecommunications operators-Telstra,Optus and Vodafone-with a view to providing an overview of the types of services and solutions presently offered and targeted at the consumer,business and emergency segments.There are two units of analysis (i) the company at the upper level, and (ii) the usability context at the lower level.A number of general,regulatory and future considerations and questions are also posed in the paper to indicate the future research direction.
location-based services LBS mobile GPS mobile social network employee monitoring emergency management
Roba Abbas Katina Michael M.G.Michael Anas Aloudat
School of Information Systems&Technology The University of Wollongong Wollongong,Australia
国际会议
第八届国际移动商务会议(Eighth International Conference on Mobile Business)
大连
英文
188-195
2009-06-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）