PURPOSE Mobile phone use increases social participation. People with the communication disorder of aphasia are disadvantaged in the use of information and communication technology such as mobile phones and are reported to be more socially isolated than their peers. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health provides a framework to address ...

Background: The increasing demand for using mobile phones has led to increasing mobile phone jammers as well. On the other hand, reports show that exposure to electromagnetic field causes an increase in the incidence of diseases such as leukemia, cancer, depression and failure in pregnancy outcomes; therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of exposure to electromagnetic fi...

background: the use of mobile phone by children is increasing drastically. children are likely to accumulate many years of exposure during their lives. furthermore, as nervous systems in children are developing, children may be at a greater risk compared to adults. in this light, some scientists have suggested that the use of mobile phones should be restricted in high-risk groups such as childr...

cell phone technology is being increasingly used by clinicians to access up-to-date information during patient care. medical students, residents, and faculty members of medical faculties or hospitals use mobile devices, such as smartphones (e.g., iphone, android, blackberry) and tablet computers (e.g., ipad), to answer clinical questions and find medical information. this article investigates t...

Gender differences exist in both general and specific uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Most of this research has focused on computers and the internet to the exclusion of mobile phones. Little research has examined gender differences in specific types of mobile phone usage, especially among youth. This issue is examined using data from a random sample of middle-school ...

In today’s Internet, a major portion of the total traffic is generated by peer-to-peer applications such as Skype and BitTorrent. The amount of this traffic has been increasing since the beginning of this decade. At the same time, mobile use of the Internet has become even more popular. New mobile phones enable people to surf the web and read their mails wherever they are. However, for some rea...

We investigate the identification of mobile phones through their built-in magnetometers. These electronic components have started to be widely deployed in mass market phones in recent years, and they can be exploited to uniquely identify mobile phones due their physical differences, which appear in the digital output generated by them. This is similar to approaches reported in the literature fo...

Due to the development witnessed in the field mobile phone and the development of their operating systems added to the increase in number of users and many businesses that have relied on them, a large number of programmers have started to develop special operating systems for these phones and building applications that meet the demands of the users and facilitate a great number of businesses. T...

This papers presents a context-aware NLP approach to automatically detect noteworthy information in spontaneous mobile phone conversations. The proposed method uses a supervised modeling strategy which considers both features from the content of the conversation as well as contextual information from the call. We empirically analyze the predictive performance of features of different nature on ...

Mobile phone datasets allow for the analysis of human behavior on an unprecedented scale. The social network, temporal dynamics and mobile behavior of mobile phone users have often been analyzed independently from each other using mobile phone datasets. In this article, we explore the connections between various features of human behavior extracted from a large mobile phone dataset. Our observa...