Objective: To describe the uses of institutional and personal smartphones on General Internal Medicine wards and highlight potential consequences from their use. Methods: A mixed methods study consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was conducted in General Internal Medicine wards across four academic teaching hospitals in Toronto, Ontario. Participants included medical...

Modern smartphones are a great platform for Location Based Services (LBS). While outdoor LBS for smartphones has proven to be very successful, indoor LBS for smartphones has not yet fully developed due to the lack of an accurate positioning technology. In this paper we present an accurate indoor positioning approach for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphones that uses the innate ability of...

This article seeks to identify the existence of ambiguities in the day-to-day use of smartphones by Brazilian executives. In this manner, fourteen technological paradoxes were identified from the theoretical reference base adopted. The single representative case study method was then applied, by analysing a Brazilian company in the pharmaceutical sector, which has a policy of providing smartpho...

Smartphones are ubiquitous devices that enable users to perform many of their routine tasks anytime and anywhere. With the advancement in information technology, smartphones are now equipped with sensing and networking capabilities that provide context-awareness for a wide range of applications. Due to ease of use and access, many users are using smartphones to store their private data, such as...

Attacks against smartphones are becoming commonplace today, especially since they are connected to the Internet at all times. Current attacks range from worms and botnets [9], to user installed Trojans [8]. New vulnerabilities in smartphones emerge fast particularly since today’s smartphones are based on common software libraries such as the Linux kernel or the WebKit browser engine. In order t...

A smartphone, with its versatile connectivity and incredible computational capability, can easily become an indispensable part of a user’s day. But that same user can quickly become addicted to his/her device, constantly checking Facebook notifications, playing games, etc. This constant distraction can adversely affect a user’s productivity and even his/her happiness. With the advent of always-...

Smartphones contain security-sensitive information of a user such as contacts, SMS, photos, and GPS information. Because smartphones are always turned on and ready to connect to the Internet, that sensitive information is in danger of leakage. Various kinds of malware are more and more attacking smartphones, especially Android phones. We propose a scheme that protects Android phones against one...

With the prolific growth in usage of smartphones across the spectrum of people in the society it becomes mandatory to handle and configure these devices effectively to achieve optimum results from it. This paper proposes a context sensitive model termed COSMOS (COntext Sensitive MOdel for Smartphones) for configuring the smartphones using multifactor analysis with the help of decision trees. Th...

Smartphones provide a lot of interesting data for a forensic investigator. As many apps make use of location information to provide or enhance their services, the log files of smartphones can contain valuable geodata. Based on geodata it is possible to reconstruct the whereabouts of the phone and its user at certain points in time. The functionality to analyse geodata based on GPS coordinates i...

Smartphones have become vital devices in the current onthe-go Thai culture. Typically, virtual keyboards serve as tools for text input on smartphones. Due to the limited screen area and the large number of Thai characters, the size of each button on the keyboard is quite small. This leads to character mistyping and low typing speed. In this paper, we present a typical framework of a Thai Input ...