DealFinder: A Collaborative, Location-Aware Mobile Shopping Application*
Wesley Chan · 2001
We present DealFinder, a position-aware shopping application for mobile devices that illustrates how collaboration can help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions. DealFinder enables users to share product reviews, pricing information, and shopping experience, allowing them to filter any information they find based on their position. Keywords: Mobile applications, collaboration, wireless and hand-held devices, location-based services, context - aware computing. INTRODUCTION The emergence of high-bandwidth wireless networks and the wide proliferation of always-connected mobile devices will enable new and compelling collaborative applications. Collaborative mobile applications, coupled with locationbased services , will empower users to share information based on similar interests and context ---when and where they need that information. Only a few of these applications exist today. As the wireless data infrastructure improves , however, many more collaborative application...