Understanding How Ageing Australians Experience Information Literacy Using Mobile Devices

Understanding interaction with mobile devices

This editorial paper introduces an emerging and important area for human–computer interaction research, which concerns interaction with mobile devices. The design of interactive mobile applications should differ from that of traditional desktop applications. To this aim, the paper discusses some concepts and models that help to understand the new challenges as well as recently introduced techni...

A Psychosocial Approach to Understanding Young Australians’ Mobile Phone Behaviour

This thesis by publication contributes to our knowledge of psychological factors underlying a modern day phenomenon, young people’s mobile phone behaviour. Specifically, the thesis reports a PhD program of research which adopted a social psychological approach to explore mobile phone behaviour among young Australians aged between 15 and 24 years. A particular focus of the research program was t...

Prejudice and Discrimination From Two Sides: How Do Middle-Eastern Australians Experience It and How Do Other Australians Explain It?

There is little quantitative research regarding the causes and expression of prejudice and discrimination against Middle-Eastern Australians. We report two studies, one from the perspective of new settlers and a second from the perspective of host communities. The first found that Middle-Eastern Australians reported more discrimination compared with non-Middle-Eastern Australians. More discrimi...

Information, Meta-Cognitive Understanding and Information Literacy Strategy

Applications for Mobile Information Devices

Commands To ensure application portability across devices, a method is needed to insulate the developer from the actual set of buttons that may be on a device (button sets will vary significantly among devices). As mentioned earlier, MIDs will either have a one-handed ITU-T phone keypad or a two-handed QWERTY-style keyboard. Beyond that, devices may have any number of programmable (soft) button...