The use of digital portable music devices such as MP3 players has rapidly increased during the last decade, and the sheer availability of music offered by such players raises questions about their impact on listeners' mental and physical health and well-being. This article explores MP3 player use as an everyday tactic for affect regulation, here understood as an individual's efforts to maintain...

background: there is no information about the pattern of use of earphones and music players in iranian adolescents. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and pattern of the use of earphone and music player devices as a main risk factor for hearing loss in adolescents of tabriz city, northwest of iran. methods: in this cross‑sectional study in november 2011, 2,359 high school studen...

This paper presents a design and implementation of a hard-disk based portable entertainment device based on an ARM-based system for managing thousands of personal photo/music/video collections anywhere you go. This device is designed as a music-centric entertainment player, slideshow player, digital photo storage and video player with built-in metadata database to sync and manage the contents. ...

Many people consume multimedia content (images, music, movie) on portable devices like DVD player, MP3 player, Portable Multimedia Player and also through Internet. Problem statement: The conventional algorithms such as DES and AES cannot be used directly in multimedia data, since multimedia data are repeatedly have high redundancy, large-volumes and require real-time operations, such as displa...

As our interactions with computing continue to expand off the desktop, we want to use mobile devices in many, if not all, of our everyday activities. However, the touch screen and physical button centric interfaces of today’s mobile devices offer relatively poor support for interaction in many situations where computing is not our primary task. For example, when wearing gloves in the cold, a mo...