Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering

Lim, Soo Ling; Bentley, Peter J.; Kanakam, Natalie; Ishikawa, Fuyuki; Honiden, Shinichi

doi:10.1109/tse.2014.2360674

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“…Mobile app developers find it difficult to determine, from target users, their needs and potential feedback in order to improve the apps [17,18]. Thus, a good usability is the key to increase the chances of an app to be chosen by users among many others.…”

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“…International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines usability as "the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which specified users achieve specified goals in particular environments" [19] and Nielsen [20] defines it as "a quality attribute that measures the usability of user interfaces and the reference methods to improve ease of use during the design process." A poor usability is the main discontinuing factor from app usage [11,17,21]; hence, it is important to study the usability in desktop applications, but it is even more important to address it in mobile apps because mobile devices are the first and most used electronic devices in the world [22,23] with a large number of users [24].…”

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A Systematic Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Instant Messaging on iOS Devices

Caro‐Alvaro

García-López

García-Cabot

et al. 2017

Mobile Information Systems

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Nowadays, instant messaging applications (apps) are one of the most popular applications for mobile devices with millions of active users. However, mobile devices present hardware and software characteristics and limitations compared with personal computers. Hence, to address the usability issues of mobile apps, a specific methodology must be conducted. This paper shows the findings from a systematic analysis of these applications on iOS mobile platform that was conducted to identify some usability issues in mobile applications for instant messaging. The overall process includes a Keystroke-Level Modeling and a Mobile Heuristic Evaluation. In the same trend, we propose a set of guidelines for improving the usability of these apps. Based on our findings, this analysis will help in the future to create more effective mobile applications for instant messaging.

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confidence: 99%

A Systematic Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Instant Messaging on iOS Devices

Caro‐Alvaro

García-López

García-Cabot

et al. 2017

Mobile Information Systems

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“…Previous literature on culture has focused to identify the reflected culture in our daily life such as design of website (Ko et al, 2013), mobile apps (Lim et al, 2014) and advertising (Singh et al, 2004) and to understand its influences on consumers' behavioral areas such as attitude and WTP. However, limited attention has given to more fundamental area, the effect of culture on perception process.…”

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The Cultural Influence on Perceived Quantity

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Son²

2017

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Variety in an assortment has been known to reduce the quantity perception of items. Individuals heavily rely on area cue when they perceive the quantity of items. People tend to perceive a single color or a shape unit as one area but the variety breaks up the areas into multiple colors or shape units. Little has been known about the mechanism underlying the relationship between the quantity perception and the variety. This research examined the cultural effects on the process of quantity perception and found that feminine cultural characteristics moderates the quantity perception when the area cues are associated with diverse colors.

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“…Overall, the set of studies is dominated by European researchers, who have been involved in 19 of the 30 selected studies. In particular, the University College London has been involved in 4 of the studies ( [19], [20], [30], and [31]). Figure 7 shows a map with the representativeness of the institutions where the 30 selected papers were written.…”

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Core Foundations that Support the Mobile App Ecosystems

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Silva²,

Alencar³

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Business transformation through Information Technology has been widely discussed. Nowadays, thanks to the growing number of smartphones, these changes are frequent, and knowledge becomes increasingly more valuable, and to that end, a whole new economic approach take place. The present paper aims to identify new research opportunities motivated by the growth of mobile solutions. It implements a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) in order to understand which are the Core Foundations of the Mobile App Ecosystem, pointing out the current situation of this research area and further strengthening the debate on the most relevant views of this ecosystem. This SLR includes primary studies listed from 2011 through 2016, resulting in a total of 1052 candidate publications, among which 30 publications were selected after a screening process. This paper concludes that academic community research is focused on four topics found within the selected papers, that should describe the Core Foundations of Mobile App Ecosystem: User, Developer, Store, and Publicity. This paper also shows a relationship graph between the selected publications, illustrating the representativeness of these works in this area. It also points out the locations where the Mobile App Ecosystem researches are being conducted. Furthermore, this SLR shows that there is a clear lack of works that combine these four core foundations.

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Investigating Country Differences in Mobile App User Behavior and Challenges for Software Engineering

Cited by 156 publications

References 55 publications

A Systematic Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Instant Messaging on iOS Devices

A Systematic Evaluation of Mobile Applications for Instant Messaging on iOS Devices

The Cultural Influence on Perceived Quantity

Core Foundations that Support the Mobile App Ecosystems

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