Article
Use of Mobile Apps in Information Seeking: An International Viewpoint
Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting (2013, Montreal, QC, Canada)
Abstract
Due to global advances in mobile technology, smartphones have become a regular personal electronic device in daily life. The mobile devices and their supporting software applications promise of on‐the‐go information‐seeking convenience are now backed by more robust industry infrastructure, sophisticated built input devices, and hundreds of thousands of downloadable applications. Research has focused on the use of these handheld devices/applications in mobile situations.
Meeting Name
76th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2013 ASIS&T (2013: Nov. 1-6, Montreal, QC, Canada)
Department(s)
Library and Learning Resources
Keywords and Phrases
- Mobile Apps,
- Information seeking,
- Use study,
- User studies,
- Research methods
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Inc., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
11-1-2013
Disciplines
Citation Information
Hsin-Liang Chen, Crystal Fulton, Hannah Gleave, Yin-Leng Theng, et al.. "Use of Mobile Apps in Information Seeking: An International Viewpoint" Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting (2013, Montreal, QC, Canada) Vol. 50 Iss. 1 (2013) ISSN: 0044-7870; 1550-8390 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hsin-liang-oliver-chen/45/