In accordance with development of smart phone, the importance of keypad was increasing, because the smart phone provides a variety of feature like word processor, chatting program, messenger and etc. In this paper, we propose the new Hangeul keypad for smart phones using gestures. And, also we do experiment for performance evaluation of the proposed keypad in this paper. The experiment shows th...

BACKGROUND Technology use has shown an impact of users' lifestyle. The use has been attributed to psychosocial reasons. This usage manifests as excessive to addictive use of technology. There is a need to explore its addictive potential on large sample study as well as its association with psychosocial variables. It is one of its kind study on wider age group. The present work assessed the magn...

BACKGROUND With regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in Iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. There is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. This study examines validity and reliability of the Persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (MPAIS) in college students. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

This study developed a Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) based on the existing internet and cellular phone addiction scales. For the development of this scale, 29 items (1.5 times the final number of items) were initially selected as preliminary items, based on the previous studies on internet/phone addiction as well as the clinical experience of involved experts. The preliminary scal...

The recent sensationalizing of litigation in the smart phone industry has fostered several concerns, in particular those relating directly to the so-called standard essential patents (SEPs). It has been argued that the smart phone industry has seen a dramatic rise in litigation, driven by SEPs whose owners can cause potential “patent hold-up” of downstream manufacturing firms implementing the s...

Background: Smartphones pervasiveness has captured people with the ability to search for information, communicate more easily, and make our day-to-day jobs easier. On other hand, excessive smartphone use can also lead serious musculoskeletal consequences including neck pain disability. Objective: To determine correlation of Text-Neck-Syndrome addiction during COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The cro...

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between smartphone addiction and parenting levels mothers whose 18-48-month-old with chronic diseases. Materials Methods: research analytical-cross-sectional type. was conducted by face-to-face interview 140 were accompanying 18-48 months-old-children diseases in a university hospital western Turkey February 2021 March 2022 agreed part...

Commonly, improvement to smart-phone technology focuses at advancing the connectivity of human users. This results to better and richer information access but, undeniably, it also increases the accessibility of the users themselves, something that could arguably have negative side-effects. This position paper discusses the potential of context awareness in modern smart-phones by presenting the ...

This paper describes work in progress regarding personalized heart monitoring using smart phones. Our research combines ubiquitous computing with mobile health technology. We use wireless sensors and smart phones to monitor the wellbeing of high risk cardiac patients. The smart phone analyses in real-time the ECG data and determines whether the person needs external help. Depending on the situa...