BACKGROUND Smartphones and tablets are being used widely in the Western World creating benefits in healthcare. The Ministry of Health in Ghana has an e-Health strategy, with the aim of integrating such resources into healthcare. Whilst there are numerous mHealth projects going on in Ghana, there is little evidence of doctors using such devices in their practice. METHOD A qualitative study was...

results the results of this study showed high reliability and validity of smartphone in regarding ug with icc > 0.95. the highest reliability for both methods was in elbow supination and the lowest was in the elbow flexion (0.84). objectives the study was designed to compare the smartphone inclinometer-based app and ug in evaluation of rom of elbow. materials and methods the maximum rom of elbo...

background: attendance management is one of the most important issues in the educational institutions. the traditional method for attendance recording is manually recording by professors in the school or university which is associated with several problems. we proposed the design and utilization of an electronic application for students’ attendance recording via smartphones and pcs. methods: th...

There are a number of dedicated 3D capture devices in the market, but generally they are unaffordable and do not make use of existing smartphone cameras, which are generally of decent quality. Due to this, while there are several means to consume 3D or VR content, there is currently lack of means to capture 3D content, resulting in very few 3D videos being publicly available. Some mobile applic...

During the past ten years, we have witnessed how mobile phones and the simple functions of voice and text messaging (SMS) can empower citizens and affect the way citizens interact with each other and with the society as whole. Mobile phones are also thought to open up for a deepened democracy through citizen participation and insight into state affairs, through influencing the political decisio...

The effective governance of local public services depends critically on the civic engagement of local citizens. However, recent efforts to promote effective citizen oversight of the public-sector services in developing countries have had mixed results. This study discusses and evaluates a uniquely designed, low-cost, scalable program designed to improve the governance and performance of primary...

Youngsters maintain contact with each other through social-networking websites. We propose new ways of nurturing contacts by monitoring users’ activity with mobile phones (i.e., by monitoring text messages, phone calls, and encounters captured by Bluetooth). We show that, based on user’s activity, one is able to recommend new friends, track health of friendships (and alert users they may be neg...

Spontaneous interaction in ubiquitous computing settings requires a simple, well-understood means for users to communicate with devices in their nearby environment, some kind of equipment most people are familiar with, and a mechanism to determine whether certain entities can interact with each other. Mobile phones are a well-established means for people to communicate not only verbally, but al...

Smartphones have become truly ubiquitous devices and it is hard to imagine our daily life without them. Today’s modern smartphones offer a diverse set of services and rich functionalities, which include gaming, web browsing, emails, GPS navigation, voice search and high definition video. Such rich functionalities attracted a large number of smartphone owners (referred to as users), and as a res...

Smartphones are innovations that currently provide immense benefits and convenience to users in society. However, not all the users of society are accepting and using smart phones, more specifically, for this research study older adults (50+) are a demographic group displaying such an attitude. Currently, there is minimal knowledge of the reasons that older adults adopt and use smartphones. Bea...