TY - GEN
T1 - A study of users' intention to voluntarily contribute real-time traffic information through mobile devices
AU - Zhu, Chen
AU - Wat, Kai Kwong
AU - Ren, Chao
AU - Liao, Stephen Shaoyi
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Advanced traffic information systems are increasingly available to provide users with real-time traffic information services. Nowadays, this kind of public information collection relies extensively on contributions made by end users on a voluntary basis. Although the literature has looked into the motivations that may lead to free online contributions, it has largely overlooked the actual use of the same systems based on mobile devices. Considering the issue from the perspectives of complexity, social effects and practical considerations, this paper explores and examines factors influencing mobile device users to freely contribute to a traffic information system. The methodology is planned to be a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. From the first stage of this research, which involves three face-to-face interviews and a focus group discussion among mobile application developers and users, we gleaned interesting results which are instructive for future empirical work. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
AB - Advanced traffic information systems are increasingly available to provide users with real-time traffic information services. Nowadays, this kind of public information collection relies extensively on contributions made by end users on a voluntary basis. Although the literature has looked into the motivations that may lead to free online contributions, it has largely overlooked the actual use of the same systems based on mobile devices. Considering the issue from the perspectives of complexity, social effects and practical considerations, this paper explores and examines factors influencing mobile device users to freely contribute to a traffic information system. The methodology is planned to be a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. From the first stage of this research, which involves three face-to-face interviews and a focus group discussion among mobile application developers and users, we gleaned interesting results which are instructive for future empirical work. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
KW - Advanced traffic information systems (ATIS)
KW - Free user contribution
KW - Mobile devices
KW - Theory of planned behavior (TPB)
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-29873-8_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-29873-8_39
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783642298721
VL - 108 LNBIP
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 421
EP - 428
BT - E-Life
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th Workshop on E-Business on E-Life: Web-Enabled Convergence of Commerce, Work, and Social Life, WEB 2011
Y2 - 4 December 2011 through 4 December 2011
ER -