Facilitating personal content management in smart phones

Smart phones, which combine, e.g., communication and mobile multimedia features, store increasing amount of media content and so they face content management challenges similar to what desktop computers are experiencing. Content management refers to actions performed on content (e.g., capture image, or edit text) although the similar management action may vary depending on content type (e.g., editing audio involves different operations than editing an image). A key enabler for content management is metadata, which describes content with textual attribute–value pairs, and aids the user in, e.g., automatic grouping, sorting, searching, and organizing. Research on mobile personal content management is on its infancy and therefore the dissertation focuses on common enablers which are required for further management of multimedia in smart phones. As a result, we claim that information about the context of use could enrich metadata and improve ease-of-use with the system, e.g., to support later information retrieval and visualizing content. Another prerequisite for enabling the personal content management is to locate the content either by browsing or searching. Finally, after content has been located, it must be visualized to begin the actual content management and defining how to display the content is essential as the user can view it only briefly while moving

How do Higher Education Students manage their Digital Footprints before Finding a Job?

We have identities and we can communicate online on the internet and in social networks. The question is how we can define and manage social roles/online representations on digital platforms and in social media? “Digital identity†is in the focus in this exploratory phase of our research the aim of which has been to map how identity refers to a driver in a digital setting with digital footprints, visibility or nonvisibility, professionalism and privacy in online publicity. Our empirical research has been trying to explore this phenomenon of the digital media for online personal strategy with segmentation. The first exploratory phase focused on the students’ segment prior to initial employment. We were wondering which points of decision were relevant in digital identity strategy for them and how they would replace their strategy consciously prior to employment. We had a qualitative research with semi-structured interviews. Our results show that digital identity phenomena define social roles/online strategies and representations on digital platforms and in social media. Members of the research segment have some strategies to manage their digital footprints. They would like to change their profile from “student†to that of a “professional†assuming less activity in digital context

Netframework and the digitalized-mediatized self

Users leave digital footprints behind via online systems. Mediatized self-representations by human interactions and digitalized automatization imply decisions and dilemmas on account of online participation. Chains of decisions and network impact produce online mediatized selves embedded in the NetFrameWork where net is the internet, the frame is the context by it and work implies the flow process of “always on” interactions. Consequences are unpredictable: both former and updated records are available in an infinite digital present. The first part of this paper introduces the conceptual approach of the digitalized and mediatized self in NetFrameWork. The second part provides an insight into our research-in-progress of personal/professional digital strategies. The goal of this summary is to present the qualitative results of our research project about digital identity in order to prepare the next research milestone via quantitative method

An Experimental Study on Ubiquitous commerce Adoption: Impact of Personalization and Privacy Concerns

Ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) represents anytime, anywhere commerce. U-commerce can provide a high level of personalization, which can bring significant benefits to customers. However, privacy is a major concern to customers and an obstacle to the adoption of u-commerce. This research examines how personalization and context can impact customers\u27 privacy concerns as well as intention to adopt u-commerce applications. As u-commerce is new and emerging, we used the scenario-based approach to operationalize personalization and context in an experimental study. The experimental results show that the effects of personalization on customers\u27 privacy concerns and adoption intention are situation dependent

zwei empirische Untersuchungen zur Erkundung betriebswirtschaftlicher Absatzperspektiven für innovative mobilfunkbasierte Datendienste

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