Educational portals are all around us. However, users don‟t always find it easy to access these portals especially due to power failure. With the increasing use of mobile phones, these phones can be used as an access point to Higher Educational portals. In this paper, we propose a mobile portal architecture that would enable portal application to be used on mobile phones. The system was develop...

Advanced mobile phones, such as Smartphones and Pocket PC phones, can potentially provide cost-effective ubiquitous access. Towards evaluating their potential and discovering usability problems, we distributed state-of-the-art phones to 10 mobile users and employed a triangulation of research methods to study their usage for two month research methods included qualitative inquiries in the form ...

As the capabilities of mobile phones are increasing, developers are able to create more complex applications on them. Nowadays, mobile phones support several networking technologies which allowes to create cooperative networks from them; this way mobile phones can work together in order to reach a common goal. We have created an application, called MobSensor, which basically turns the mobile ph...

INTRODUCTION Mobile phones are ubiquitous. There are over 2.5 billion mobile phone subscribers world wide. It is not uncommon for mobile phones to be the first object that people interact with in the morning and they are quite often one of the last things people interact with in the evening before going to sleep [3]. Though mobile phones play a significant role in the daily lives of billions of...

BACKGROUND The use of mobile phone by children is increasing drastically. Children are likely to accumulate many years of exposure during their lives. Furthermore, as nervous systems in children are developing, children may be at a greater risk compared to adults. In this light, some scientists have suggested that the use of mobile phones should be restricted in high-risk groups such as childre...

In this study, we use eye tracking to compare the impact of ads on viewing behavior on desktop computers and mobile phones. As in previous studies, we use a list-based search engine results pages (SERPs) to conduct our examination. Our preliminary results contradict banner blindness on SERPs both on desktop computers and mobile phones. Additionally, the preliminary results suggest that top ads ...

This paper investigates the use of mobile phones and tablets for learning purposes among university students in Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is proposed to analyze the adoption of mobile devices and smart phones by Saudi university students for accessing course materials, searching the web for information related to their discipline, sharing know...

BACKGROUND It is known that mobile phones may play a role in microorganism transmission. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the number of Candida genera/species isolated from samples collected from the surfaces of mobile phones and the hands of the staff as well as the preferred health-related behavior. METHODS The mycological evaluation included 175 mobile telephon...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a research review for the effect of Mobile phone radiation on human health and the possible relation between Mobile phone radiation and brain tumor. Mobile phones become increasingly prevalent throughout our society. In the year 2016, it was estimated that there were 4 billion cellular phone users worldwide; the number is growing by one million every month ...

Lighting, camera resolution and focus, skew (shear), and processing power all contribute to the difficulties in developing effective OCR applications using mobile phones. We propose a novel algorithm using PCA, divergence, and a global neural network to develop an OCR package that levers user-specific parameters with a neural network trained on an extended data set.