Nowadays smartphones are ubiquitous, their usage continues to grow all over the world. With the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimating global mobile subscriptions at 6 billion at the end of 2011, it is calculated that global smartphones penetration is now 16.7 percent [7]. Smartphones are devices built on full-fledged operating systems, with advanced computing capabilities and e...

Societies are mostly using smartphones and the World Wide Web in the era of information technology, (IT). Information technology and its impact is revealed to everyone on modern society. IT enables communication worldwide but reduced face-to-face interaction, reduced physical activity, made headache, fatness, heart disease, diabetes, neck pain, cost, job loss, and so many other health problems....

This paper reports on issues related to the use of mobile phones by women aged 60 years and over. The study started with a series of focus group discussions, which covered usage patterns, problems, benefits, ideal phone design, and desired and unwanted features. It then moved to an exploration of the group’s cooperative learning process when encountering an unfamiliar mobile phone. The issues r...

Hospital acquired infections are a problem in both developed and developing countries despite overall progress. It significantly increases the patient’s length of stay in hospital resulting in higher hospital costs. Source of infection may be exogenous such as from the air, medical equipment, hands of surgeons and other staff or endogenous such as the skin flora in the operative site, or rarely...

Information is a key component in improving smallholder agricultural production and linkages to remunerative markets, thus improve rural livelihoods, food security and national economies. The dynamics of using phones among farmers linking them to market outlets and other service providers are discussed. . The paper isolate strength, weakness and threats while analysing insights associated with ...

This paper describes a prototype mobile phone application which is designed to make people feel present in the sub-culture of a city. It explores some of the issues with measuring sense of place and presence on mobile devices, particularly when what users are being asked to experience is culture.

Web search engines used in smartphones need to be refined to capture the user’s perception and user’s search intentions. However, to design such a search engine is not trivial. Fuzzy query may be considered to obtain the user’s perception and user’s search intentions in voice Web search on smartphones. Handling fuzzy query in voice Web search on smartphones is one of the most difficult problems...

Considering that smartphones are tightly-coupled with their users, the interaction between smartphones and wireless sensor networks will play a very important role in pervasive computing for improving our daily life. Instead of using smartphones to access the services provided by various wireless sensor networks, we focus on using smartphones to collect data from sensor nodes opportunistically....

Smartphones play an important role in the information-communication society and accesses from smartphones to the Internet services increase more and more with the advent of cloud computing. Smartphones have comparatively small displays and it is possible for users to input data through touchscreens. The techniques such as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and ...

The Internet and mobile devices today have merged seamlessly, giving smartphone users access to the World Wide Web, email and other network services and resources. Due to the increased popularity of smartphones they have become a very attractive target for malware. It is predicted that smartphone users will see a multitude of different malware attacks aimed at their mobile devices in the near f...