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Using some material from my PhD thesis, we wrote two papers about the assessment of Near Field Communication (NFC) by Swiss experts. The first paper was presented at the International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2007) in Toronto (Download: PDF).

The second paper is an improved version, which was accepted for publication in the journal: Information Systems and E-Business Management (Springer)

Title:
Near Field Communication: an assessment for future payment systems
Abstract:
In this paper, we present an assessment of Near Field Communication (NFC) in the context of a payment market. During these past years, we have been witnessing a number of mobile payment trials based on NFC. Early experiences are already quite encouraging and many expect NFC to become a highly efcient and effective technology for mobile payments. The ob jective of our research is to evaluate in a systematic manner the potential of NFC as an upcoming technology for mobile payments. In order to ensure the rigor of our research, we used a formal and structured approach based on multi-actor multi-criteria methods. Our research provides one of the first assessment of NFC and a realistic picture of the current Swiss situation as we involved numerous mobile payment experts. Our findings show that Swiss industry experts are quite enthusiastic about the future of NFC.
Download: Draft PDF, Springer PDF