mHealth transforms healthcare delivery around the world due to its affordability and right time availability. It has been used for delivery of various smoking cessation programs and interventions over the past decade. With the proliferation of smartphone usage around the world, many smartphone applications are being developed for curbing smoking among smokers. Various interventions like SMS, pr...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and mortality rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are increasing worldwide. Therefore, COPD remains a major public health problem. There is a growing interest in the use of smartphone technology for health promotion and disease management interventions. However, the effectiveness of smartphones in reducing the number of patients having a COPD exacerba...

As smartphone users have been increased, studies using mobile sensors on smartphone have been investigated in recent years. Activity recognition is one of the active research topics, which can be used for providing users the adaptive services with mobile devices. In this paper, an activity recognition system on a smartphone is proposed where the uncertain time-series acceleration signal is anal...

Fujitsu achieved a world’s first in applying the Windows Phone 7.5 as a mobile device platform and marketing a smartphone running this OS. In a smartphone market dominated by iPhone and Android devices, Fujitsu, in addition to developing Android products, began from early on to investigate the development of Windows Phone devices that take advantage of the innovative features of this OS. It is ...

The word wide sharply increase in the number of smartphones user, the Android platform pose to becoming a market fugleman that makes the need for malware analysis on this platform an urgent issue. The current Artificial Immune Based malware detection systems they focus on traditional computers that uses information from OS or network, but the smartphone software behavior has its own structure a...

This paper proposes a probabilistic method that infers the transport modes and the physical path of trips from smartphone data that were recorded during travels. This method synthesizes multiple kinds of data from smartphone sensors which provide relevant location or transport mode information: GPS, Bluetooth, and Accelerometer. The method is based on a smartphone measurement model that calcula...

In this paper, we propose a system to achieve Augmented Reality (AR) on a smartphone. In this system, we assume a fixed RGB-D camera connected to a server is installed in the environment, and perform AR based on the 3D environment shape got by the RGB-D camera in real-time. On the smartphone side, it sends the image captured by its camera, and receives the output image processed to perform AR b...

The proliferation of smartphones introduced new challenges in the users’ security and privacy. Currently, the literature concentrates mainly on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of their security models. Not extensive work is available on the security awareness of smartphone users, even though their role in the ecosystem is important. This is so, as users’ actions directly affect their security and privacy....

The adoption of Smartphone’s in daily lives is transforming from simple communication to smart and the use of these multipurpose devices is rapidly increasing. The main reason for the increase in the Smartphone usage is their small size, their enhanced functionality and their ability to host many useful and attractive applications. However, this vast use of mobile platform makes these smart dev...

Smartphone addiction is a new phenomenon when a smartphone becomes a necessity in our daily life. This study explores smartphone usage patterns associated with its addiction drivers and results. Four factors such as ease of use, emotional lift, preference of social interaction, and flow, are used for drivers and neglect of work is used as a proxy of addiction result. In the output of path analy...