Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
approach: We compiled a, to our knowledge, complete list
of mobile barcode scanner companies. We asked each scanner
provider to send us their software on the device they consider
best for their software. We contacted 13 scanner providers
in total, of which 2 refused to send a handset, 11 sent their
preferred handset (see Figure 2). Another influence factor we
balanced out is that some scanners call a website and only
then display the scanned barcode. In order to factor out these
Fig. 3. Procedure: introduction, testing of scanners, scanning of products
Fig. 4. Scanning of the three test products chips, detergent, and pesto.
delays the time was stopped as soon as the screen of the mobile
phone switched to open the Internet browser.
3) Environment: The study was run in a close-to-reality