The problematic use of smartphones has extensively drawn social attention because of the harmful and disturbing outcomes. However, there has been little comprehensive research concerning the mechanism of problematic behavior in the use of smartphone, particularly for behavioral addiction. Given the specific characteristics of smartphones (e.g., high mobility, instant connection, and ubiquitous ...

Recent developments in mobile technologies have produced a new kind of device, a programmable mobile phone, the smartphone. Generally, smartphone users can program any application which is customized for needs. Furthermore, they can share these applications in online market. Therefore, smartphone and its application are now most popular keywords in mobile technology. However, to provide these c...

The usage of Smartphone has been a 21st century phenomenon that attracts young generation for their usefulness in different purposes and functions. This study looks into the usage, perceived effect and implications of Smartphone on the academic performance of the post-graduate business management students in India. Perceived and relative significance of Smartphone usages to variables such as ge...

The authors investigated associations between smartphone use and chronotype. To 196 medical university students, they administered a set of self-reporting questionnaires designed to evaluate smartphone use and chronotype. Respondents were categorized into morning types and evening types: for females, the evening types scored higher for smartphone dependence; the authors also found greater durat...

Despite the widespread adoption of smartphone applications, empirical research that examines the user acceptance on different application types is still scare. This paper empirically compares the effects of perceived enjoyment and perceived risk on hedonic and utilitarian smartphone applications. Our analyses show that perceived enjoyment is a stronger determinant of intention to use a hedonic ...

[Purpose] Smartphone use reportedly changes posture. However, how neck posture is altered in smartphone users with neck pain is unknown. This study examined changes in the posture of young adults with and without mild neck pain (MNP) when using a smartphone. [Subjects] Thirteen control subjects and 14 subjects with MNP who used smartphones were recruited. [Methods] The upper cervical (UC) and l...

A rapid growing of smartphone market and its increasing revenue have developers to target multiple platforms. Each leading software company, e.g. Apple or Microsoft, develops its smartphone applications or apps complying with its own specifications. The specification of each platform makes a platform-dedicated application incompatible with other platforms due to the diversity of operating syste...

Smartphone usage has evolved in people’s lives from necessity to habit and in some cases leading to compulsive use and addiction. However, only a little research has been performed on the prevention of Problematic Smartphone Usage (PSU). Behavioral economics has been applied to investigate how smartphone users respond to nudges that try to lower their smartphone usage. Findings revealed that th...

To understand a pervasive but seldom examined phenomenon that people become heavily dependent on their smartphone, this exploratory study introduces a new concept, smartphone indispensability, defined as the intensive psychological dependency on smartphones due to the absolute necessary and primary role of smartphones in ones’ daily life. Observing that the smartphone indispensability is hetero...

Smartphone charging imposes a big burden to users because they often have to recharge their smartphones every day or even multiple times per day. In this paper we try to answer the following question: can smartphones get automatically charged without requiring explicit effort from users? To this end, we propose a new approach, called AutoCharge, to explore the feasibility of automatic smartphon...