In early days the mobile phones are considered to perform only telecommunication operation. This scenario of mobile phones as communication devices changed with the emergence of a new class of mobile devices called the smart phones. These smart phones in addition to being used as a communication device are capable of doing things that a computer does. In recent times the smart phone are becomin...

− Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health causing premature deaths worldwide. In these conditions, the development of reliable and accurate mobile systems that measure the indoor air quality together with other parameters associated with health status of the people working or living in specified spaces represents an important challenge. The paper presents the design and implementa...

In this paper, a mobile e-health-management system is presented which extends authors’ previous works on mobile physiological signal monitoring. This system integrates a wearable ring-type pulse monitoring sensor with a smart phone and provides a mobile “exercise-333” health management mechanism. All physiological measurements are transmitted to the smart phone through Bluetooth. The user can m...

The growth of the population of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets provides huge amount of idling computing power. Smart phone technology drastically reduces the use of power for doing common internet applications such as chatting, send/receive mail, downloading music, video, data from internet. Smart phones now drastically replaces the normal cell phones. Smart phones can be used ...

This paper aims to investigate the suitability of smart phones in the context of military medicine. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have been adopted more often than smart phones in mobile medical care. In this paper, we aim to present results on the use of smart phones by military physicians. In the autumn 2005, thirty one physicians used a smart phone during their military service. We inte...

BACKGROUND The risk of cell phone addiction is a social and psychological problem which has been proposed by psychologists, psychiatrists, and educational supervisors. The present study aimed to investigate the behavior of mobile phone addicts and mental health of university students of Shahrekord, Iran. METHODS This study was an applied research survey for the purposes of this study. The stu...