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Sarah Heldt, Gregor Broll, Philipp Lehmann
Mobile Communities - Requirements and Features for Success
2nd International Workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience (MIUX 2008), 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2008), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2008

Advancements in mobile technologies and decreasing charges are starting to leverage the mobile usage of the internet and its applications. This paper investigates mobile communities and explores requirements and features that make them attractive in the context of constrained mobile devices and existing Web communities. It comprises a comparison between virtual and mobile communities, a survey to identify necessary features for the latter and a low fidelity HTML prototype. The results of this preliminary evaluation of requirements and features lead to guidelines for the design and implementation of a mobile community as an extension of a Web community.