BACKGROUND A review of the literature has revealed that the rates of overweight and obesity have been increasing in Australia over the last two decades and that wellness mobile phone apps play a significant role in monitoring and managing individuals' weight. Although mobile phone app markets (iTunes and Google Play) list thousands of mobile phone health apps, it is not always clear whether tho...

Presently, the advanced computing capabilities of information communication hardware and equipment far exceed the ability of software that utilizes these features. Mobile phones have extraordinary features for multimedia and communications and are the prime example of current software limitations. The multimedia usage of mobile phones is limited in its speed because of the computations requirem...

This paper reports on issues related to the use of mobile phones by women aged 60 years and over. The study started with a series of focus group discussions, which covered usage patterns, problems, benefits, ideal phone design, and desired and unwanted features. It then moved to an exploration of the group’s cooperative learning process when encountering an unfamiliar mobile phone. The issues r...

Mobile phones offer a variety of interesting and exciting applications. A mobile phone can be a communication device, an entertainment device, and a learning device. J2ME is a popular platform for mobile phone applications. In this paper we present an English-Chinese learning system which is built using J2ME and Java servlets. The system allows users, especially, those who understand Chinese, t...

With an increased societal focus on a sustainable economy and a healthy population, well-being of knowledge workers has become an important topic. This paper investigates techniques to support a knowledge worker to manage his well-being. A possible solution is to monitor the workers’ behaviour and use this information for giving feedback as soon as his well-being is threatened. Knowledge worker...

The primary goal of people accessing the Web from mobile phones is to find specific pieces of information (PoI, hereinafter), not to surf. Welldesigned sites for mobile users help them by minimizing the path needed to reach the desired PoI. We propose a further improvement, based on visualizing thematic update status (i.e., how many PoI have been added in each category and when). This can preve...