There are growing concerns that seem to suggest that students no longer engage in school-related activities as they ought to. Recent observation has revealed that students now spend excessive time participating in Internet gambling with their smartphone during school period. This trend could have far-reaching consequences on their schoolwork engagement and by extension, academic performance. Dr...

A user of a smartphone may feel convenient, happy, safe, etc., if his/her smartphone works smartly based on his/her context or the context of the device. In this article, we deal with the position of a smartphone on the body and carrying items like bags as the context of a device. The storing position of a smartphone impacts the performance of the notification to a user, as well as the measurem...

Joe Valacich was the accepting Senior Editor. Galletta, D. F., & Dunn, B. K. (2014). Assessing smartphone ease of use and learning from the perspective of novice and expert users: Development and illustration of mobile benchmark tasks, THCI, 6(4), 74-91. Dennis F. Galletta Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh [email protected] Brian Kimball Dunn Price College of Busine...

Mobile crowd sensing harnesses the data sensing capability of individual smartphones, underpinning a variety of valuable knowledge discovery, environment monitoring and decision making applications. It is a central issue for a mobile crowd sensing system to maximize the utility of sensing data collection at a given cost of resource consumption at each smartphone. However, it is particularly cha...

In the past decade, technology growth in healthcare has exploded, and along with the tide of newly emerging technology comes the smartphone and accompanying applications. A smartphone is a cellular telephone with additional features including cameras, video playback, MP3 player, built-in applications, and Internet access for Web browsing and e-mail. Smartphone sales are predicted to reach 1.5 b...

Nowadays the smartphone plays an important role in our lives. While it brings us convenience and efficiency, its overuse can cause problems. Although a great number of studies have demonstrated that people affected by substance abuse, pathological gambling, and internet addiction disorder have lower self-control than average, scarcely any study has investigated the decision making of smartphone...

Plant leaf area index (LAI) is a key characteristic affecting field canopy microclimate. In addition to traditional professional measuring instruments, smartphone camera sensors have been used to measure plant 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 angle o...

BACKGROUND Smartphone-based assessment may be a useful diagnostic and monitoring tool for patients. There have been many attempts to create a smartphone diagnostic tool for clinical use in various medical fields but few have demonstrated scientific validity. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to develop a smartphone application of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) and to de...

OBJECTIVES Smartphone applications (apps) are increasingly used to facilitate casual sexual relationships, increasing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In STD investigations, traditional contact elicitation methods can be enhanced with smartphone technology during field interviews. METHODS In 2013, the Monroe County Department of Public Health conducted a large, multi-infectio...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic technique is often applied for the diagnosis of diseases affecting internal organs and image-guidance of surgical procedures. Although the endoscope has become an indispensable tool in the clinic, its utility has been limited to medical offices or operating rooms because of the large size of its ancillary devices. In addition, the basic design and imaging capability of the...