Smart exhibition and modes of “smart +”：A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

There is a lack of study in the exhibition attenders’ adoption of smart exhibition. This article is concerned with the situation of smart exhibition for future study and provides a systematic review of existing research related to the smart exhibition and relevant “smart +” such as smart city or smart community. A systematic review is conducted to analyze the academic articles in CNKI and Emerald databases. The results show that smart exhibition has attracted a global attention in the past five years in terms of the number of published articles. Interdisciplinary research of “smart +” can be added to the study of smart exhibition adoption and acceptance. This paper focuses on different databases including CNKI and Emerald by the title sorted by relevance, which can bring out an analysis problem. The paper is organized in a unique way in the sense that it attempts to find out the most frequently studied smart areas to facilitate the research of smart exhibition and the systematic nature of the review to increase the business value of the method.