A Taxonomy Of Mobility: Some Implications And Requirements For Mobile Information Appliances

Abstract

The term mobility can be understood from different perspectives: from the
technological point of view, through information, to people. Because of this wide
acceptance, it was hard to provide a wider and more unified categorisation of all
aspects involved in mobility. Even so, this paper proposes to introduce the taxonomy
of mobility. The taxonomy consisted of three independent components from the user
perspective: the mobility of people; the mobility of infrastructure and the mobility of
information. The paper analyses the three dimensions and presents the implications
of mobility in all aspects of life. The papers concludes with some remarks and a list
of requirements for mobility of information appliances.