E1276 CMAJ, December 13, 2011, 183(18) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Seemingly overnight, smartphones have become the latest must-have, irreplaceable tool in the armamentarium of the contemporary clinician. However, their use is often banned or seriously limited in health care institutions, best depicted by ominous signage from Big Brother — “no cellphones or electronic d...

Mobile Geräte wie Handys haben seit Jahren einen festen Platz in unserem Alltag. In den letzten Jahren hat sich auf diesem Sektor daher viel verändert und eine neue Geräteklasse, die sogenannten Smartphones, halten Einzug in den Massenmarkt. Da die Geräte nicht mehr nur zum Telefonieren genutzt werden, sind in einem modernen Smartphone allerlei Sensoren integriert. Unter anderem auch Beschleuni...

[Purpose] Smartphones are widely used by teenagers and adults for various purposes. As teenagers use smartphones more actively than adults, they are more prone to be addicted to smartphones. Furthermore, excessive usage of smartphones can lead to various psychosocial and physical symptoms. [Subjects and Methods] One hundred teenage subjects were recruited and divided into normal and addiction g...

Touch-screen technique has gained the large popularity in human-screen interaction with modern smartphones. Due to the limited size of equipped screens, scrolling operations are indispensable in order to display the content of interest on screen. While power consumption caused by hardware and software installed within smartphones is well studied, the energy cost made by human-screen interaction...

Smartphones are becoming increasingly popular day-by-day. Modern smartphones are more than just calling devices. They incorporate a number of high-end sensors that provide many new dimensions to smartphone experience. The use of smartphones, however, can be extended from the usual telecommunication field to applications in other specialized fields including transportation. Sensors embedded in t...

Road crashes are a growing concern of governments and is rising to become one of the leading preventable causes of death, especially in developing countries. The ubiquitous presence of smartphones provides a new platform on which to implement sensor networks and driver assistance systems, as well as other ITS applications. In this paper, existing approaches of using smartphones for ITS applicat...

In this paper we discuss a setup for technology-mediated audience participation using smartphones and high-frequency sound IDs. Drawing from the insights of a research project on audience participation in live music we describe a setup for playful music interaction composed of smartphones. In this setup the audience needs to install a smartphone app. Using high-frequency sound IDs music samples...

Smartphones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous both in general society and the workplace. Recent increases in mobile processing power have shown the current generation of smartphones has equivalent processing power to a supercomputer from the early 1990s. Many industries have abandoned desktop computing and are now entirely reliant on mobile devices. Given these facts it is logical that smart...

Interpersonal relationships are vital for our daily functioning and wellbeing. Social networks may form the primary means by which environmental influences determine individual traits. Several studies have shown the influence of social networks on decision-making, behaviors and wellbeing. Smartphones have great potential for measuring social networks in a real world setting. Here we tested the ...