Previous research has suggested that differences in the size of extremely large displays can change how individuals perceive and react to the displayed content. However, are such effects also observed on small screen devices (i.e., smartphones)? Participants read a news article on either a small or a large smartphone display and rated their attitudes toward the material before and after reading...

The widespread adoption of mobile, yet powerful smartphones enable the development of distributed sensing applications. For such applications, the smartphone plays a central role by acting as a bridge between user worn sensors and a remote server. Smartphone energy consumption is a critical issue that should be considered. As the user’s daily context continually changes, the application can dyn...

This study was conducted to develop a simple, rapid, and accurate lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) detection method for point-of-care diagnosis. The one-dot LFIA for aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) was based on the modified competitive binding format using competition between AFB1 and colloidal gold-AFB1-BSA conjugate for antibody binding sites in the test zone. A Smartphone-based reading system consisting ...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the revised and short version of the smartphone addiction scale and the proof of its validity in adolescents. In addition, it suggested cutting off the values by gender in order to determine smartphone addiction and elaborate the characteristics of smartphone usage in adolescents. METHOD A set of questionnaires were provided to a total of 540 s...

BACKGROUND This paper investigates viewing distances and eyestrain symptoms in young adults reading from a smartphone for 60 minutes. METHODS A survey related to common asthenopic (eyestrain) symptoms was administered to subjects before and after they read an extract from a novel on a smartphone for 60 minutes. Subjects rated their symptoms on a scale from zero (not at all) to four (extremely...

PURPOSE This study aimed to classify distinct subgroups of people who use both smartphone and the internet based on addiction severity levels. Additionally, how the classified groups differed in terms of sex and psychosocial traits was examined. METHODS A total of 448 university students (178 males and 270 females) in Korea participated. The participants were given a set of questionnaires exa...

As more people get using mobile phones, smartphone which is a new generation of mobile phone with computing capability earns world-wide reputation as new personal business assistant and entertainment equipment. This paper presents a synthetic character which acts as a user assistant and an entertainer in smartphone. It collects low-level information from various information sources available in...

Use of smartphone has become ubiquitous. With smartphone cameras becoming powerful, they are replacing digital cameras and digital SLRs as primary instruments to take photos and record videos. It is natural even for plastic surgeons that smartphones are handy to take still photographs and even record high-definition or 4K videos. Another invention which has become popular with smartphone photog...

1 Abstract Although the smartphone has emerged as the most convenient device on which to capture photos, it lacks the tools to effectively view and organize these photos. Given the casual nature of smartphone photography, we propose a system that can streamline and simplify the post-capture process. We propose Vignette, a content management system for smartphone photography that improves the vi...

Crowdsourcing technologies such as the use of web or smartphone applications enable the collection of large linguistic corpora. Such corpora allow for an analysis of various linguistic features. In the present contribution we analyzed data of >1500 speakers that were crowdsourced with the smartphone application ‘Dialäkt Äpp’ to examine one such feature: the articulation of /kh/ as [kx͡] in Swiss...