The objective of this study is twofold: 1) to investigate an impact of software quality attributes of a learning management system (LMS) on students’ satisfaction in both the personal computer and the smartphone settings; 2) to examine whether LMS quality factors have different impacts in the smartphone context and the PC context. We explore five quality attributes of LMS (capability, usability...

Forest leaf area index (LAI) is a key characteristic affecting a field canopy microclimate. In addition to traditional professional measuring instruments, smartphone-based methods have been used to measure forest LAI. However, when smartphone methods were used to measure conifer forest LAI, very different performances were obtained depending on whether the smartphone was held at the zenith angl...

Aim and objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of using smartphone applications to reduce dental anxiety and hemodynamic changes produced in pediatric patients aged 510 years. Study design: A total of 60 patients (aged 5-10 years old) who were scheduled for elective dental treatment were included in this randomized controlled trial. Patients in Group I were not sh...

INTRODUCTION It is important to assess and quantify gait in order to determine the severity of impairments during gait and to evaluate therapeutic interventions. However, laboratory gait assessment is expensive and time consuming and there is a lack of an easily applicable tool for the quantification of gait in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to validate a smartphone-based measurem...

OBJECTIVE To validate a calibrated smartphone-based hearing test in a sound booth environment and in primary health-care clinics. DESIGN A repeated-measure within-subject study design was employed whereby air-conduction hearing thresholds determined by smartphone-based audiometry was compared to conventional audiometry in a sound booth and a primary health-care clinic environment. STUDY SAM...

Today, smartphone devices are owned by a large portion of the population and have become a very popular platform for accessing the Internet. Smartphones provide the user with immediate access to information and services. However, they can easily expose the user to many privacy risks. Applications that are installed on the device and entities with access to the device's Internet traffic can reve...

Psychologists typically rely on self-report data when quantifying mobile phone usage, despite little evidence of its validity. In this paper we explore the accuracy of using self-reported estimates when compared with actual smartphone use. We also include source code to process and visualise these data. We compared 23 participants' actual smartphone use over a two-week period with self-reported...

The recent advancements in online social networks andmobile devices have provided valuable data sources to track users’ smartphone adoption, i.e., the usage of smartphones over time. An incisive understanding of users’ smartphone adoption can benefit many useful applications, ranging from user behavior understanding to targeted marketing. This paper studies smartphone adoption prediction in soc...

Smartphone has become highly prevalent in recent years. It demonstrates as a useful technology that brings productivity and convenience in our daily life. However, smartphone usage can also drive psychological and behavioral maladaptive dependency, which may result in negative problems. Given that research on smartphone addiction is still limited in the information systems literature, this pape...

BACKGROUND Optimal bowel preparation is one of the major cornerstones for quality of colonoscopy. But poor bowel preparation still occurs in 10% to 25% of all patients. To optimize patient guidance, we developed a new smartphone app (ColoprAPP) for Android smartphones which guides and accompanies the patient starting 4 days before colonoscopy throughout the whole colonoscopy preparation procedu...