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ADL-GAN: Data Augmentation to Improve In-the-Wild ADL Recognition Using GANs

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
The types of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) a person performs or avoids, and underlying patterns can provide insights into physical and mental health, making passive ADL recognition from smartphone sensor data important. However, as people perform ADLs
Apiwat Ditthapron   +2 more
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Predicting personality from patterns of behavior collected with smartphones

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Smartphones are sensor-rich computers that can easily be used to collect extensive records of behaviors, posing serious threats to individuals’ privacy. This study examines the extent to which individuals’ personality dimensions (assessed at
Clemens Stachl   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Smartphone Use Patterns of Smartphone-dependent Children [PDF]

open access: yesChild Health Nursing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the smartphone use patterns of smartphone-dependent children.Methods: The study design was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The data were derived from the 2017 survey on smartphone overdependence conducted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency.
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Fighting over smartphones? Parents' excessive smartphone use, lack of control over children's use, and conflict

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior, 2021
Parental regulation of children’s smartphone use is typically associated with conflict. To explain conflict, this paper focused on parents’ own smartphone use.
Jörg Matthes   +3 more
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Smartphones and Cognition: A Review of Research Exploring the Links between Mobile Technology Habits and Cognitive Functioning

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
While smartphones and related mobile technologies are recognized as flexible and powerful tools that, when used prudently, can augment human cognition, there is also a growing perception that habitual involvement with these devices may have a negative ...
Henry H. Wilmer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Citizen science water projects in Nepal: Participant motivations and the impacts of involvement

open access: yesWater 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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Can smartwatches replace smartphones for posture tracking? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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People with Learning Disabilities and Smartphones: Testing the Usability of a Touch-Screen Interface

open access: yesEducation 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

open access: yesSensors, 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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Exploring the factors of excessive smartphone use by undergraduate students

open access: yesKnowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2021
There is an exponential increase of apprehension in the uptake, affordances and the excessive use of smartphones by multiple categories of users and the impact on the society.
Gbolahan Olasina, Siyanda Kheswa
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