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Exploring mobile internet meetings: A case study
Pak Yoong
School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Greig Cleland
School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract
This paper describes preliminary results from a research programme that examines how Internet-enabled mobile devices can be used to better facilitate wireless mobile collaboration.
In particular, the paper reports a case study in which a group of graduate students used Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled mobile phones to explore the nature of Mobile Internet Meetings (M-meetings).
Even though the case study involved graduate students, we believe the results have implications for busy business executives and there are a number of issues and challenges that must be addressed before business teams can adopt M-meetings.
Keywords
innovation, mobile commerce, wireless mobile collaboration, mobile Internet meetings, distributed electronic meetings
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