Abstract
Mobile applications act as valuable tools that can be used by entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) alike to market their products/services and considerably reduce costs of doing business. The government of Kenya has invested billions of shillings in laying of fiber optic cables in Kenya, improving Kenya‘s ICT sector and coming up with projects aimed at promoting the use of technology among businesses and citizens alike. With all of these investments, there are challenges that hinder the use of business mobile applications by SMEs. Although context awareness in mobile applications is gaining recognition among mobile user and developer communities, many design scenarios still do not incorporate required context awareness as one of their primary goals. Although there are strong context awareness frameworks for mobile applications, there is still potential to improve the usability of virtual learning systems. The study established that the concept of context independence including the physical context independence and the logical context independence from the applications and mobile devices provides a graceful solution in the form of a methodological framework for the development of context-aware systems for SMEs in Nakuru Town.
Highlights
Mobile computing is defined as computing activity associated with portable computing devices and their mobile users (Girish, 2000)
They may range from general purpose laptop computers to specialized devices for data organization, and may be stand-alone, intermittently connected, or continuously connected using wireless networks. Despite this wide spectrum of devices and technologies, mobile computing is characterized by a close association between the portable device and its mobile user. This unifying aspect induces many of the problems in mobile computing, and provides the flexibility to conceive of and implement their solutions raising the issue of context awareness
In this research work tailoring of user experiences has been investigated in areas of context-awareness in a mobile environment
Summary
Mobile computing is defined as computing activity associated with portable computing devices and their mobile users (Girish, 2000) Such devices come in a plethora of sizes and shapes, have widely varying computational capability, and may be connected to other devices through a multitude of different network technologies. They may range from general purpose laptop computers to specialized devices for data organization, and may be stand-alone, intermittently connected, or continuously connected using wireless networks. Despite this wide spectrum of devices and technologies, mobile computing is characterized by a close association between the portable device and its mobile user. The context of a network may be its quality of service parameters, like round-trip time, and the context of a device may be its capabilities, display features or battery level (Chihani et al, 2011)
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