Past researchers have examined the impact of personality types on technology usage among students from varying angles. However, due to dearth of studies on personality types and smart phone addiction among students in the Nigerian environment, this study investigated the relationship between personality types, smart phone addiction and specific phone usages among University students. A sample s...

Much has been said recently on off-loading computations from the phone. In particular, workloads such as speech and visual recognition that involve models based on “big data” are thought to be prime candidates for cloud processing. We posit that the next few years will see the arrival of mobile usages that require continuous processing of audio and video data from wearable devices. We argue tha...

Smartphones' usages are growing rapidly. Smart phone usages are not limited to the receiving/calling or SMSing anymore. People use smartphone for online shopping, searching various information in the web, bank transactions, games, different applications for different usages etc. Anything is possible by just having a smartphone and the internet. The more usages of the smartphone also increase ke...

This paper investigated the relationship between incrementally logged phone logs and self-reported survey data to derive regularity and predictability from mobile phone usage logs. First, we extracted information not from a single value such as location or call logs, but from multivariate contextual logs. Then we considered the changing pattern of the incrementally logged information over time....

The presence of noisy instances in mobile phone data is a fundamental issue for classifying user phone call behavior (i.e., accept, reject, missed and outgoing), with many potential negative consequences. The classification accuracy may decrease and the complexity of the classifiers may increase due to the number of redundant training samples. To detect such noisy instances from a training data...

During a regular day while on the move, most people interact with multiple portable devices: a personal music player, mobile phone, and digital camera. People driving cars in addition may also use navigation systems. Whereas each of these devices are getting more and more sophisticated, and packed with numerous functionalities, they are each optimized for specific usages. Modern mobile phones f...

The use of ICT for Education is an extremely complex issue that can and should be analyzed from different perspectives. This article does not intend to cover all of them but, instead, try to address only some of them by developing a high level view showing the contradictions that characterize different official statements and stressing some educational paradoxes. The article describes the Frenc...

BACKGROUND One of the main usages of social networks in clinical studies is facilitating the process of sampling and case finding for scientists. The main focus of this study is on comparing two different methods of sampling through phone calls and using social network, for study purposes. METHODS One of the researchers started calling 214 families of children with diabetes during 90 days. Af...