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Implementation and Design of Usability Analysis System for Upgrading the Usage of Mobile Applications (모바일 어플리케이션 활용도를 높이기 위한 사용성 분석 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Koo, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Chang-Hwan;Kim, Yei-Chang
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.171-182
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    • 2012
  • The many companies and developers develop new mobile applications for serving to users. But, most of it is disappeared in a brief. Because Many applications weren't satisfy the needs of user. In this paper, it analysis to reason short life of mobile application in the smart terminals and mobile applications. Therefore, we develop dynamic user usability analysis system of applications to solve the problem. User usability analysis method is surveyed users and masters at present and then occurs high cost. In this paper, we develop dynamic user usability analysis system for real users. If usage of mobile applications upgrading, benefit of developers increased and serviced target contents to users.

Understanding Consumer Purchase Intention via Mobile Shopping Applications: An Empirical Study from Vietnam

  • VO, Thi Huong Giang;LUONG, Duy Binh;LE, Khoa Huan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.287-295
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    • 2022
  • With the dramatic increase in mobile usage, more and more businesses see the potential of m-commerce. This study focuses on a subcategory of m-commerce, a mobile shopping application. To understand the purchase intention via m-commerce applications, this study is aimed to identify the main factors that are related to the applications and explore the influence of these factors on consumers' mobile shopping intention. This study uses quantitative research methods and selects Vietnam as its case study. The survey responses of 450 Vietnamese mobile shoppers were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicated that online reviews, e-service quality, and information quality are significant predictors of behavior intention, and perceived risk negatively influences consumer online purchase intention via the applications. The content enriches the combined research of detailed and possible models with quality dimensions and risk perception. Practitioners such as e-retailers and developers can enhance the quality of applications and determine strategies to reach potential users and maximize revenue. M-commerce providers should pay adequate attention to credible and influential online reviews since mobile shoppers heavily rely on reading reviews before buying a product.

Application-Adaptive Performance Improvement in Mobile Systems by Using Persistent Memory

  • Bahn, Hyokyung
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2019
  • In this article, we present a performance enhancement scheme for mobile applications by adopting persistent memory. The proposed scheme supports the deadline guarantee of real-time applications like a video player, and also provides reasonable performances for non-real-time applications. To do so, we analyze the program execution path of mobile software platforms and find two sources of unpredictable time delays that make the deadline-guarantee of real-time applications difficult. The first is the irregular activation of garbage collection in flash storage and the second is the blocking and time-slice based scheduling used in mobile platforms. We resolve these two issues by adopting high performance persistent memory as the storage of real-time applications. By maintaining real-time applications and their data in persistent memory, I/O latency can become predictable because persistent memory does not need garbage collection. Also, we present a new scheduler that exclusively allocates a processor core to a real-time application. Although processor cycles can be wasted while a real-time application performs I/O, we depict that the processor utilization is not degraded significantly due to the acceleration of I/O by adopting persistent memory. Simulation experiments show that the proposed scheme improves the deadline misses of real-time applications by 90% in comparison with the legacy I/O scheme used in mobile systems.

Mobile Web User Interface Patterns for Screen Usage and User Input (화면 활용과 사용자 입력을 위한 모바일 웹 사용자 인터페이스 패턴)

  • Choi, Jong Myung;Lee, Young Ho;Cho, Yong Yun
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.183-190
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    • 2012
  • Mobile web applications are different from desktop web applications because of their small screen size and small user input devices. Therefore user interface designers have spent their effort and time to re-design the user interface of mobile web applications to meet these differences. In this paper, we introduce five user interface patterns for mobile web applications to reduce their effort and time. Two of them are for utilizing small screen size efficiently, and they are space overloading pattern and data filtering pattern. These patterns enable designers to reduce screen usage. The other three patterns - data suggestion pattern, input reuse pattern, and incremental data input pattern - are for helping users' data input on mobile devices. These three patterns enable users to reduce direct data input. Our work will help user interface designers develop mobile web interface to utilize screen space efficiently and get data with less errors and less efforts from users.

Design and Implementation of A Weakness Analyzer for Mobile Applications (모바일 애플리케이션을 위한 취약점 분석기의 설계 및 구현)

  • Mun, Il-Yong;Oh, Se-Man
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.1335-1347
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    • 2011
  • The dissemination and use of mobile applications have been rapidly expanding these days. And in such a situation, the security of mobile applications has emerged as a new issue. Although the safety of general software such as desktop and enterprise software is systematically achieved from the development phase to the verification phase through secure coding, there have been not sufficient studies on the safety of mobile applications yet. This paper deals with deriving weakness enumeration specialized in mobile applications and implementing a tool that can automatically analyze the derived weakness. Deriving the weakness enumeration can be achieved based on CWE(Common Weakness Enumeration) and CERT(Computer Emergency Response Team) relating to the event-driven method that is generally used in developing mobile applications. The analysis tool uses the dynamic tests to check whether there are specified vulnerabilities in the source code of mobile applications. Moreover, the derived vulnerability could be used as a guidebook for programmers to develop mobile applications.

The Impact of Customization of TV Home Shopping Mobile Applications on Service Quality and Customer Loyalty (TV 홈쇼핑 모바일 애플리케이션의 고객화가 서비스 품질 및 고객충성도에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구)

  • Eum, Sang-Won;Ahn, Chul-Ok;Rhim, Ho-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.255-269
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: We examine the impact of Customization of TV Home Shopping Mobile Applications on Service Quality and Customer Loyalty. Methods: We collect data by using survey and proposed relationships between latent variables using Structural Equations Modeling. Results: We find that Customization of TV Home Shopping Mobile Applications positively affect Service Quality and Customer Loyalty. In addition, service quality work as a mediate variable between Customization with Customer Loyalty. Conclusion: Our findings explain the significant relationships between each variables and hence it is necessary to consider Customization and Service Quality in order to achieve desired goal of enhancing business performance through mobile applications.

Determinants of Mobile Application Use: A Study Focused on the Correlation between Application Categories (모바일 앱 사용에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구: 앱 카테고리 간 상관관계를 중심으로)

  • Park, Sangkyu;Lee, Dongwon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.157-176
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    • 2016
  • For a long time, mobile phone had a sole function of communication. Recently however, abrupt innovations in technology allowed extension of the sphere in mobile phone activities. Development of technology enabled realization of almost computer-like environment even on a very small device. Such advancement yielded several forms of new high-tech devices such as smartphone and tablet PC, which quickly proliferated. Simultaneously with the diffusion of the mobile devices, mobile applications for those devices also prospered and soon became deeply penetrated in consumers' daily lives. Numerous mobile applications have been released in app stores yielding trillions of cumulative downloads. However, a big majority of the applications are disregarded from consumers. Even after the applications are purchased, they do not survive long in consumers' mobile devices and are soon abandoned. Nevertheless, it is imperative for both app developers and app-store operators to understand consumer behaviors and to develop marketing strategies aiming to make sustainable business by first increasing sales of mobile applications and by also designing surviving strategy for applications. Therefore, this research analyzes consumers' mobile application usage behavior in a frame of substitution/supplementary of application categories and several explanatory variables. Considering that consumers of mobile devices use multiple apps simultaneously, this research adopts multivariate probit models to explain mobile application usage behavior and to derive correlation between categories of applications for observing substitution/supplementary of application use. The research adopts several explanatory variables including sociodemographic data, user experiences of purchased applications that reflect future purchasing behavior of paid applications as well as consumer attitudes toward marketing efforts, variables representing consumer attitudes toward rating of the app and those representing consumer attitudes toward app-store promotion efforts (i.e., top developer badge and editor's choice badge). Results of this study can be explained in hedonic and utilitarian framework. Consumers who use hedonic applications, such as those of game and entertainment-related, are of young age with low education level. However, consumers who are old and have received higher education level prefer utilitarian application category such as life, information etc. There are disputable arguments over whether the users of SNS are hedonic or utilitarian. In our results, consumers who are younger and those with higher education level prefer using SNS category applications, which is in a middle of utilitarian and hedonic results. Also, applications that are directly related to tangible assets, such as banking, stock and mobile shopping, are only negatively related to experience of purchasing of paid app, meaning that consumers who put weights on tangible assets do not prefer buying paid application. Regarding categories, most correlations among categories are significantly positive. This is because someone who spend more time on mobile devices tends to use more applications. Game and entertainment category shows significant and positive correlation; however, there exists significantly negative correlation between game and information, as well as game and e-commerce categories of applications. Meanwhile, categories of game and SNS as well as game and finance have shown no significant correlations. This result clearly shows that mobile application usage behavior is quite clearly distinguishable - that the purpose of using mobile devices are polarized into utilitarian and hedonic purpose. This research proves several arguments that can only be explained by second-hand real data, not by survey data, and offers behavioral explanations of mobile application usage in consumers' perspectives. This research also shows substitution/supplementary patterns of consumer application usage, which then explain consumers' mobile application usage behaviors. However, this research has limitations in some points. Classification of categories itself is disputable, for classification is diverged among several studies. Therefore, there is a possibility of change in results depending on the classification. Lastly, although the data are collected in an individual application level, we reduce its observation into an individual level. Further research will be done to resolve these limitations.

A Study on the Influence of Human Behaviors and Affections on the Flow of Mobile Applications (모바일 애플리케이션의 플로우에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Jo, Hyeon;Kwak, Kiho
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.111-128
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we examined the effects of emotional and individual variables on flow in the usage of mobile application. We selected four relevant emotional and individual factors such as positive affect, negative affect, addiction and habituation. We also attempted to figure out the moderating role of communication in the effect of positive affect, negative affect, and addiction on the flow. For empirical analysis, we surveyed real users of mobile application and applied PLS (Partial Least Square) methodology for SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). As a result, we found that positive affect, addiction, and habituation have significant and positive impact on the flow. Furthermore, we also found that the moderating effects of communication on the relationships between positive/negative affect and communication are significant. Our findings provide important theoretical grounds for the effects of human behavior and emotion on the flow of mobile applications. Lastly, we also suggest significant managerial implications for the development mobile applications industry.

Interface for HMD based AR Applications (HMD 기반 중강현실 응용을 위한 인터페이스)

  • Ahn, Sang-Chul;Lee, Kyong-Joon;Kim, Hyoung-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we propose that we can use our mobile devices as an effective interface for HMD-based augmented reality(AR) applications. Recently most People have mobile devices, with which they usually watch movies and connect internet So, people get accustomed to the mobile devices. In addition, the mobile devices can show various markers on their displays so that we can implement various AR applications. So, the mobile devices are quite good interface for AR applications. In the paper, we show how we can use the mobile devices as Interface for AR applications by implementing some AR experiments.

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Analysis of a Third-Party Application for Mobile Forensic Investigation

  • Ryu, Jung Hyun;Kim, Nam Yong;Kwon, Byoung Wook;Suk, Sang Ki;Park, Jin Ho;Park, Jong Hyuk
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.680-693
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    • 2018
  • Nowadays, third-party applications form an important part of the mobile environment, and social networking applications in particular can leave a variety of user footprints compared to other applications. Digital forensics of mobile third-party applications can provide important evidence to forensics investigators. However, most mobile operating systems are now updated on a frequent basis, and developers are constantly releasing new versions of them. For these reasons, forensic investigators experience difficulties in finding the locations and meanings of data during digital investigations. Therefore, this paper presents scenario-based methods of forensic analysis for a specific third-party social networking service application on a specific mobile device. When applied to certain third-party applications, digital forensics can provide forensic investigators with useful data for the investigation process. The main purpose of the forensic analysis proposed in the present paper is to determine whether the general use of third-party applications leaves data in the mobile internal storage of mobile devices and whether such data are meaningful for forensic purposes.