Perspectives on the Viable Mobile Virtual Community for Telemedicine

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Author(s): Jan-Willem van ’t Klooster (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Pravin Pawar (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Bert-Jan van Beijnum (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Chariz Dulawan (University of Twente, The Netherlands)and Hermie Hermens (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 12
Source title: Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch082

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / E-Business

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A virtual community is an electronically supported social network: it can be seen as a group of people who have regular social interaction, independent of time and space, because of a common interest such as a problem, task, or feeling exchange (Eysenbach, Powell, Englesakis, Rizo, & Stern, 2004; Rheingold, 1993). When independence of time and space is achieved through the use of mobile devices and wireless communication technologies, such a virtual community is called a Mobile Virtual Community (MVC). Existing research interests in the MVC domain are grouped into technology-centered interest, user-centered interest and businesscentered interest (El Morr & Kawash, 2007). The technology-centered aspects include issues such as platform design, development framework, mobile network bandwidth limits and intelligent agents. The user-centered issues include user interface, behavior, personalization, privacy, data security and trust. Business-centered aspects include marketing, investment and business models.

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