Whereas most research on usability focuses on known applications we explore the first encounters. Starting up new applications expectancy, impression management, initial dialogues and acquaintance, and ritualizing operations have to be handled. We present the research approach and document short histories of learning and fascination. Focussing on business users of mobile services we conducted d...

Event logging on mobile phones is interesting for e.g. diary keeping. We present a logging service which – automatically and in the background on Symbian based mobile phones – logs events originated by user interactivities with mobile phones. Context information that can be obtained by the phones themselves is logged as well. The service offers direct access to the logged events, so that data c...

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SMS or text messaging is an area of growth in the communications field. The studies described below consisted of a questionnaire and a diary study. The questionnaire was designed to examine texting activities in 565 users of the mobile phone. The diary study was carried out by 24 subjects over a period of 2 weeks. The findings suggest that text messaging is being used by a wide range of people ...

This article presents a case study of a university discrete mathematics course with over 170 students who had access to an online learning environment (OLE) that included a variety of online tools, such as videos, self-tests, discussion boards, and lecture notes. The course is based on the ideas of the personalised system of instruction (PSI) modified to take advantage of an OLE. Students’ lear...

Blogging has often been described as writing an online diary but, nowadays, it is more diverse and a considerable amount of blogs forms a common interconnected resource – the blogosphere – with comprehensive societal impact. While various studies have inquired social-psychological influences on the intention to contribute to an individual blog, the perceptions related to creating such a common ...

background: research into the role of neuroimaging in primary headaches such as tension type headache (tth) is ongoing. in the present study, we aim to evaluate the ability of neuroimaging to detect potential abnormalities in patients with new onset tth and normal neurological exam. materials and methods: in a prospective study, 294 cases of new onset tth with normal neurological exam, that had...

This study examines how the significance of weak ties varies by contact initiation and purposes of contact in everyday life. Based on data from 55 contact diaries, we analyze the extent to which diary keepers judge each of 102,825 specific contacts as beneficial after they occur, by how well they knew the target person beforehand. Our hypothesis testing and bootstrap resampling show that when a...