Problematic cell phone use has alarmingly increased in industrialized countries in the past 10 years. For many perpetrators, it can turn into a behavioural addiction, although this is not a recognized medical condition. Although there are many tools for evaluating this use, one of the most widely used tools is the Mobile Phone Problematic Use Scale (MPPUS), which we test on a representative sam...

Objective This study aimed to study the mobile phone addiction behavior and awareness on electromagnetic radiation (EMR) among a sample of Malaysian population. Methods This online study was conducted between December 2015 and 2016. The study instrument comprised eight segments, namely, informed consent form, demographic details, habituation, mobile phone fact and EMR details, mobile phone aw...

BACKGROUND Existing instruments that assess individuals' relationships with mobile phones tend to focus on negative constructs such as addiction or dependence, and appear to assume that high mobile phone use reflects pathology. Mobile phones can be beneficial for health behavior change, disease management, work productivity, and social connections, so there is a need for an instrument that prov...

Objective: The purpose of the study is to examine relationship between perceived stress, social support and media addiction in university students.
 Method: research a descriptive, relational study. sample consisted 404 students studying at Faculty Health Sciences. Personal Information Form, Perceived Stress Scale, Social Support Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form were used for data.
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The use of smart phones is increasing in the world. This excessive use, especially in the last two decades, has created too much concern on the effects of emitted electromagnetic fields and specific absorption rate on human health. In this descriptive-analytical study of the electric field resulting from smart phones of Samsung and Nokia by portable measuring device, electromagnetic field, Mode...

Effects of “smart-phoning” (using a smart phone) while walking were investigated in a laboratory experiment. While walking with an iPhone 5s, 24 undergraduate students texted a message, watched a video, played a game, and just held the phone in one hand in addition to performing visual and auditory detection tasks at the same time. The detection tasks were to respond to designated target signal...

The proliferation of smart mobile phones with diverse features makes it possible to increase their use in criminal activities. The fast technological evolution and presence of different smart phones and their proprietary operating systems pose great difficulties for investigators and law enforcement officials to choose the best tool for forensics examination, accurate recovery and speedy analys...

This paper presents a low cost and flexible home control and monitoring system using an embedded micro-web server, with IP connectivity for accessing and controlling devices and appliances remotely using Android based Smart phone app. The proposed system does not require a dedicated server PC with respect to similar systems and offers a novel communication protocol to monitor and control the ho...

We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart Furniture is equipped with networked computers, sensors and various I/O devices, it can provide various services by alone or by coordinating with other devices. In this paper, the physical structure and middlewares for the Smart...