Use of Mobile Apps in Information Seeking: An International Viewpoint

Hsin-Liang Chen; Crystal Fulton; Hannah Gleave; Yin-Leng Theng; Mei-Mei Wu

doi:10.1002/meet.14505001004

Use of Mobile Apps in Information Seeking: An International Viewpoint

Hsin-Liang Chen, Crystal Fulton, Hannah Gleave, Yin-Leng Theng, Mei-Mei Wu

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<p> 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&hyphen;the&hyphen;go information&hyphen;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.</p>

Original language	American English
Journal	Proceedings of the 76th ASIST Annual Meeting (2013, Montreal, QC, Canada)
Volume	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14505001004
State	Published - Nov 1 2013

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Information seeking
Mobile Apps
Research methods
Use study
User studies

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Library and Information Science

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