BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Mobile devices are a ubiquitous part of American life, yet how families use this technology has not been studied. We aimed to describe naturalistic patterns of mobile device use by caregivers and children to generate hypotheses about its effects on caregiver–child interaction. METHODS: Using nonparticipant observational methods, we observed 55 caregivers eating with 1...

0278-6648/04/$20.00 © 2004 IEEE 9 TV advertising commercials are a critical marketing tool for many companies. Their interspersion within regular broadcast television programming can be entertaining, informing, annoying or a sales goldmine depending on one’s viewpoint. As a result, there are two major reasons for being able to detect commercial segments within television broadcasts. Interesting...

Applications within mobile devices, although useful and entertaining, come with security risks to private information stored the device such as name, address, date of birth. Standards, frameworks, models, metrics have been proposed implemented combat these vulnerabilities, but they remain persist today. In this review, we discuss risk calculation android applications which is used determine ove...

Due to the breakthrough of new technological devices in last decade, electronic media has now become an integral part our lives. Among its various forms, playing video games is one screen-based recreational activity enjoyed across age groups and genders. Although undoubtedly entertaining, there a considerable debate over relative impact gaming on individual. Traditionally, research focused nega...

How can social network sites (SNS) foster relationships when most status updates on SNS are mainly entertaining and not very intimate? This finding cannot be explained by classical social psychological theories such as social penetration theory which regard disclosure intimacy as the main driver of relational outcomes. By building on literature on the role of capitalization and humor in relatio...

For managers in established firms the Internet is a tough nut to crack. It is simple to set up a web presence, but difficult to create web-based business models. The brave new world of electronic commerce offers opportunities for businesses to enter new markets, create new products and deliver them in innovative ways. However, these opportunities can be threats. A key threat to any business, al...

With the new business models of the Web 2.0 the need for continuous requirements engineering becomes even more important. Future applications are in ’perpetual beta’ and well-understood user needs are a competitive advantage in a billion dollar market. However, user communities have to be addressed with new Web 2.0 style elicitation tools, since support by communities is offered at will in the ...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing gardner s ...