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Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hong Sheng University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 48 , Issue 2 (February 2005) table of contents
Medical image modeling
Pages: 85 - 90
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:0001-0782

Abstract:
Mobile and wireless devices are enabling organizations to conduct business more effectively. Mobile applications can be used to support e-commerce with customers and suppliers, and to conduct e-business within and across organizational boundaries. Despite these benefits, organizations and their customers still lack an understanding of the value of mobile applications. Value is defined here as the principles for evaluating the consequences of action, inaction, or decision [4]. The value proposition of mobile applications can be defined as the net value of the benefits and costs associated with the adoption and adaptation of mobile applications [2].

My Discussion:
The first time I read this article, directly in CACM, I wondered why anyone bothered. The result seemed to be a very obvious network of goals people in corporations wanted to achieve by using mobile applications, and the problems creating such applications that people in the mobile applications community have known about for ages. Re-reading it now, I realize it is a fundamental paper to reference when a researcher needs to have solid empirical justification for why certain problems are being worked on, and good pointers to what people in the field say the problems are with mobile applications. They may seem obvious to us in the field, but they still need to be properly discussed when doing science.