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Smartphones as Polymedia [PDF]
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2014 This article investigates whether smartphones function as environments of polymedia Madianou & Miller, 2012 and assesses their consequences for transnational families. Drawing on research with UK-based Filipino migrants, the article observes that users treat smartphones as integrated environments of communicative opportunities and exploit the ...
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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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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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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile
, 2023 What does it mean to be ageing in Chile as a migrant? What does it mean to be late middle-aged nowadays? How does living half of your life in a foreign country impact perspectives on later life? Is retirement an opportunity to go back to the home country?
Otaegui, Alfonso
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Teaching and Learning Physics with Smartphones [PDF]
, 2015 Innovación EducativaThe use of mobile technologies is reshaping how to teach and learn. In this paper the authors describe their research on the use of these technologies to teach physics.
Hernández Díez, María Carmen +6 more
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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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Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2022 Practically all user activities on a smartphone depend on self-contained software applications, so-called apps. Due to the large number and diversity of available apps, the analysis of app usage behaviour in social science research requires elaborate pre-
Ramona Schoedel +3 more
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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda
, 2023 Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.
Hawkins, Charlotte
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