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Cell Phone Use Habits Among the Spanish Population: Contribution of Applications to Problematic Use

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Mobile phone abuse may be associated with health problems as well as with interferences in daily life. However, beyond the mobile as a device, the contributions of specific utilities and applications to the problematic mobile phone use remains to be ...
José De-Sola, José De-Sola, Gabriel Rubio, Hernán Talledo, Luis Pistoni, Henk Van Riesen, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca   +7 more
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Towards Human‐Centered Intelligent Inhabitable Spaces: A Review

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review introduces Robot‐Rooms as a new category of architectural‐scale robots that do not operate within a space but actively form and reconfigure the space around their occupants. Drawing from robotics, HCI, architecture, and the arts, an interdisciplinary framework is proposed that maps the enabling technologies and integration challenges ...
Nithesh Kumar, Ge Lv, Keith E. Green, Ian D. Walker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family functioning and mobile phone dependency among adolescents: the mediating role of positive youth development and the moderating effect of physical activity

BMC Psychology
Objective This study investigated the protective effect of family functioning on adolescent mobile phone dependence, tested whether positive youth development mediated this association, and evaluated whether physical activity moderated the direct and ...
Feng Luo, Yannan Du, Qilong Sun, Naiyang Peng, Yansong Li   +4 more
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The association between physical activity and mobile phone dependence in college students: serial indirect associations through psychological capital and self-control

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundMobile phone dependence is receiving increasing attention in university populations. Existing evidence suggests that physical activity is related to psychological wellbeing and self-regulatory processes; however, the pathways that may account ...
Wenwen Pan, Yong Zhang, Tao Shan
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Addiction-Like Mobile Phone Behavior – Validation and Association With Problem Gambling

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Mobile phone use and its potential addiction has become a point of interest within the research community. The aim of the study was to translate and validate the Test of Mobile Dependence (TMD), and to investigate if there are any associations between ...
Andreas Fransson, Mariano Chóliz, Anders Håkansson, Anders Håkansson   +3 more
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AI‐Powered Smart Displays and AR Glasses: Perspectives and Challenges

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This perspective examines how AI is reshaping smart displays and AR glasses. The latest in image‐quality enhancement, sensor‐integrated display optimization, and physiological sensing in display systems, followed by AI‐assisted AR technologies including waveguide optimization, image compensation, foveated rendering, and multimodal sensing, is discussed.
Luke Benoit, Yizhou Qian, Yi‐Chien Chen, Ziyang Shen, Po‐Sheng Chiu, Youngeon Lee, Cheng‐Han Ke, Chih‐Lung Lin, Shin‐Tson Wu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Usage Patterns for Mobile Phone Excessive Dependence [PDF]

, 2018
The advancement of mobile technology has transformed a phone from a simple communication tool to a powerful device for entertainment, socialization and work. The proliferation of mobile apps further changed people’s way of living and working.
Liu, Na, Cui, Tingru, Wu, Yi, Kuan, Kevin K. Y.   +3 more
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou, Joshua Berning, Alessandro Bonanno, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source