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Locative Systems Using Mobile Phones

IEEE Multimedia, 2008
In the age of mobile media, artists interested in storytelling and place have been exploring various technologies to enable their locative media work. The author traces the aesthetic and technical background to these works and discusses recent RMIT projects, which work with a solar powered Bluetooth server to deliver their poetic psychogeographic ...
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The use of mobile phones in polio eradication

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, established in 1988, has led to the immunization of 2.5 billion children against the disease. In 2014, only 359 cases of poliomyelitis (polio) were reported worldwide, which is a fraction of the estimated 350000 children in 125 countries who were paralyzed annually by the poliovirus before 1988.
Kazi, Abdul Momin, Jafri, Lubna Ashraf
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The Use of the Mobile Phone for Religious Mobilization in Niger Republic [PDF]

THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 2017
AbstractWhile many scholars have studied the ways in which the Internet and online social networks are shaping contemporary religious practices and how new information and communication technologies are supporting networked forms of religious activism, only a few have analyzed the relationships between religion and the use of the mobile phone in ...
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Problematic Mobile Phone Use and Addiction Across Generations: the Roles of Psychopathological Symptoms and Smartphone Use [PDF]

, 2018
Contemporary technological advances have led to a significant increase in using mobile technologies. Recent research has pointed to potential problems as a consequence of mobile overuse, including addiction, financial problems, dangerous use (i.e. whilst
Kanjo, Eiman, Alex Sumich, Eiman Kanjo, Kanjo, E, Kibowski, F, Mark Crook-Rumsey, Kibowski, Fraenze, Daria J. Kuss, Kuss, Daria J., Crook-Rumsey, Mark, Crook-Rumsey, M, Kuss, DJ, Wang, Grace Y., Sumich, A, Grace Y. Wang, Sumich, Alex, Wang, GY, Fraenze Kibowski   +17 more
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Contextual queries express mobile information needs [PDF]

, 2010
The users of mobile devices increasingly use networked services to address their information needs. Questions asked by mobile users are strongly influenced by contextual factors such as location, conversation and activity.
Nichols, David M., David M. Nichols, Hinze, Annika, Annika M. Hinze, Chang, Carole, Carole Chang   +5 more
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Digital rights management using a mobile phone

Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce, 2007
This paper focuses on the problem of preventing illegal copying of digital assets without jeopardising the right of legitimate licence holders to transfer content between their own devices, which make up a domain. Our novel idea involves the use of a domain-specific mobile phone and the mobile phone network operator to authenticate the domain owner ...
Imad M. Abbadi, Chris J. Mitchell
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Mobile phone use while driving : an investigation of the beliefs influencing drivers’ hands-free and hand-held mobile phone use. [PDF]

, 2010
This study explored the psychological influences of hands-free and hand-held mobile phone use while driving. Participants were 796 Australian drivers aged 17-76 years who owned mobile phones.
Hyde, Melissa K, White, Katherine M, Walsh, Shari P, Watson, Barry C., White, Katherine M., Walsh, Shari P., Hyde, Melissa K., Watson, Barry, Melissa K. Hyde, Barry Watson, Shari P. Walsh, Katherine M. White   +11 more
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Problematic mobile phone use and big-five personality domains

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2014
Background: Although a mobile phone is useful and attractive as a tool for communication and interpersonal interaction, there exists the risk of its problematic or addictive use.
Motoharu Takao
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Mobile Technosoma: Some phenomenological reflections on itinerant media devices [PDF]

, 2005
Portable media devices and 'wearable' communications technologies are becoming both increasingly ubiquitous and personalised, penetrating and transforming everyday cultural practices and spaces, and further disrupting distinctions between private and ...
Richardson, I.
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How can we use mobile apps for disaster communications in Taiwan: Problems and possible practice [PDF]

The growth rate of global smart phone in 2010 is as high as 78.1%, showing that smart phone gradually becomes the mainstream in the mobile phone market. Smart phone has the function of installing applications, provides users with more diversified mobile ...
Sung, Sz Jie
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