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The main purposes of service creation would be mostly to exchange information, stay in contact, and just for fun (on the basis of non\u2010commercial use). The evaluations also indicate the visual drag and drop approach of putting service blocks together as being the most favored in terms of user satisfaction.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The concepts and findings introduced in this paper will help in designing mobile service authoring environments, which is appealing to software communities\/vendors and mobile network operators. 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