Research In Brief: Using Mobile Phones to Collect Daily Experience Data From College Undergraduates

Current Trends in Research on Mobile Phones in Language Learning

This study aimed at examining the major mobile wireless technologies, that is,mobile phones and the possibilities associated with them, currently in use in theeducational domains, with an emphasis on language teaching and learning practices.Accordingly, some of the most typical studies using different functions of mobilephones such as e-mail, multimedia capabilities, Wireless Application Protoc...

TRAC - IT uses cell phones to collect travel behavior data

egies are designed to motivate people to modify their travel choices, particularly the drive-alone preference. TDM strategies and policies seek to increase transportation system efficiency and achieve specific objectives, such as reduced traffic congestion, road and parking cost savings, increased safety, improved mobility for non-drivers, energy conservation, and pollution emission reductions....

Using Internet/Intranet Web Pages to Collect Organizational Research Data

Using cell phones to collect postpartum hemorrhage outcome data in rural Ghana.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of cell phones by professional and traditional birth attendants in rural Africa for reporting postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) data. METHODS Ten birth attendants from the remote Sene District of Ghana participated in the study. Subjects were trained to send Short Message Service text messages from cell phones using a simple numeric protocol to report data regarding PP...

The feasibility of using cellular phones to collect ecological momentary assessment data: application to alcohol consumption.

The limitations of paper-and-pencil self-monitoring (PM) are leading to the use of more sophisticated techniques. PM was compared with cellular phone monitoring (CM) to collect ecological momentary assessment data on alcohol use. Twenty social drinkers were randomly assigned to the 2 groups, and their drinking was monitored for 14 days. PM participants recorded data on cards. CM participants ca...