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. The three test products: chips, detergent and pesto.
Fig. 2. The eleven phones with barcode reader software installed.
the retail lab: one product was rather heavy in weight and
bulky (detergent powder), one rather small product (pesto),
and one rather difficult to scan (potato chips) with some
light reflection from the package. All products were equipped
with EAN 13 barcode tags as most common in retail stores
throughout Europe today. Each subject scanned exactly these
three products.
2) Mobile Handsets: We abstracted from the diversity
among handsets and tested the applicability of the actual
software, choosing the optimal hardware/software combination
for each scanner. To achieve this, we took the following