On Using Mobile Crowdsourcing for Timely Information Solicitation and Sharing of Prices

Hazleen Aris, Marina Md Din

2014

Abstract

The increase in goods prices year after year has directly affected consumer expenditures. Survey from a number of countries showed that the average household expenditures had also increased, notably in the past two years. One way to alleviate the impact of the rise in goods prices is by being more selective in buying the items. Being selective means buying the items at the stores that offer the lowest prices. To do that, a mechanism to compare the prices of items between stores is needed, in which, the local pricewatch information solicitation and sharing (LoPrice) model was proposed. The challenge to the design of such model is in the choice of suitable approach for collecting the information on prices from different stores in a timely manner. In this paper, mobile crowdsourcing is proposed to be the approach that is able to address the challenge. Review on existing price comparison applications, including their advantages and disadvantages is also included. An exploratory survey was also performed, which revealed that the use of mobile crowdsourcing is able to provide timely information solicitation and sharing of prices.

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in Harvard Style

Aris H. and Md Din M. (2014). On Using Mobile Crowdsourcing for Timely Information Solicitation and Sharing of Prices . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, pages 518-523. DOI: 10.5220/0005109505180523


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea14,
author={Hazleen Aris and Marina Md Din},
title={On Using Mobile Crowdsourcing for Timely Information Solicitation and Sharing of Prices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={518-523},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005109505180523},
isbn={978-989-758-036-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2014)
TI - On Using Mobile Crowdsourcing for Timely Information Solicitation and Sharing of Prices
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Aris H.
AU - Md Din M.
PY - 2014
SP - 518
EP - 523
DO - 10.5220/0005109505180523