Title: Mobile technology in collaboration: evaluation of a web-based discussion board

Authors: Kathryn Mac Callum, Kinshuk

Addresses: Information Systems Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. ' School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada

Abstract: How well do discussion forums perform when viewed on a mobile device? This paper assesses the effectiveness of discussion forums and how well these forums performed when viewed on four different mobile devices. The paper focuses on how the device influences the interaction with the discussion board. The guiding questions are: What functionality or typical activities do the different devices support? What features offered by the different devices best support the users when viewing a discussion forum on a mobile device? The results of this analysis will help determine how different devices support users interacting with a discussion board.

Keywords: mobile browsers; discussion boards; PDA; smartphones; mobile learning; collaboration; m-learning; mobile communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2008.020685

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2008 Vol.2 No.4, pp.318 - 328

Published online: 10 Oct 2008 *

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