Considering the Smartphone Learner: developing innovation to investigate the opportunities for students and their interest [PDF]
, 2012 Ownership of mobile smartphones amongst the general consumer, professionals and students is growing exponentially. The potential for smartphones in education builds upon experience described in the extensive literature on mobile learning from the ...
Middleton, Andrew +2 more
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Citizen science water projects in Nepal: Participant motivations and the impacts of involvement
Water Alternatives, 2021 Citizen science is blossoming in the water sciences and benefits to the scientific community are well reported. The experiences of involved citizens are less well researched, however, particularly in the Global South.
David W. Walker +12 more
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People with Learning Disabilities and Smartphones: Testing the Usability of a Touch-Screen Interface
Education Sciences, 2019 Mobile phone technology is becoming ubiquitous. However, a number of unique usability challenges are still unresolved, including small screen size, device orientation changes, and an array of interaction methods (tap, flick, pinch, etc.) These challenges
Peter Williams, Sidharth Shekhar
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Continuous m-Health Data Authentication Using Wavelet Decomposition for Feature Extraction
Sensors, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 considered m-health as: “the use of mobile wireless technologies including smart devices such as smartphones and smartwatches for public health”.
Timibloudi Enamamu +3 more
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Can smartwatches replace smartphones for posture tracking? [PDF]
, 2015 This paper introduces a human posture tracking platform to identify the human postures of sitting, standing or lying down, based on a smartwatch. This work develops such a system as a proof-of-concept study to investigate a smartwatch's ability to be ...
Cai, Jun Yu Jacinta +7 more
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Smart apps for the smart plastic surgeon
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2015 Smartphones have the ability to benefit plastic surgeons in all aspects of patient care and education. With the sheer number of applications available and more being created everyday, it is easy to miss out on apps which could be of great relevance ...
Aniketh Venkataram +3 more
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Managing big data experiments on smartphones [PDF]
, 2016 The explosive number of smartphones with ever growing sensing and computing capabilities have brought a paradigm shift to many traditional domains of the computing field.
Andreou, Panayiotis G. +4 more
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A realisation of ethical concerns with smartphone personal health monitoring apps [PDF]
, 2016 The pervasiveness of smartphones has facilitated a new way in which owners of devices can monitor their health using applications (apps) that are installed on their smartphones.
Jiya, Tilimbe
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Perceptions and Misperceptions of Smartphone Use: Applying the Social Norms Approach
Information, 2020 The social norms approach is an established technique to bring about behaviour change through challenging misperceptions of peer behaviour. This approach is limited by a reliance on self-report and a lack of interactivity with the target population.
John McAlaney +3 more
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Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances [PDF]
, 2018 This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees’ journeys. It traces the risks and possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and migration flows in the digital passage to Europe.
Al-Masri M. +17 more
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