This paper reports on a current project, KNOWMOBILE, that explores how wireless and mobile technologies, in this case how Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) may be useful in medical education and clinical practice, particularly to access net-based information. KNOWMOBILE is a research collaboration involving academic and industrial partners which aims to support Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and...

New technologies for computer-assisted survey information collection (CASIC) are being developed as graphical user interfaces, mouse/pen-based computing, handwriting recognition, hand-held computers, and use of the Interact become more widespread (Connett, Mockovak and Uglow, 1994; Gilluly, 1994; Nichols and Apple, 1994; Shanks, 1994; Forster and Snow, 1995; Hansen, 1996). The utility of these ...

cated PDAs have photo, recording/ dictation, and music options along with Internet and Bluetooth technology (beaming information from one PDA to another electronic device or vice versa). Consequently, sophisticated PDAs are more expensive. A variety of electronic clinical reference programs (including Palmand Windows-compatible) are available for PDAs. Numbered among these programs are an assor...

Mobile electronic devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Smart Phones, and wearable computers, have limited processing power, battery life and storage space. These restrictions slow application execution and hinder operability. A non-collaborating collection of mobile devices does not optimally use available resources. With a distributed software system, devices could collaborate ...

1. Introduction The popularity of wireless devices, such as laptop computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, smartcards, digital cameras etc. is rapidly increasing. Their computing capabilities are growing quickly, while their size is shrinking, allowing many of them to become more and more part of everyday life. These devices can be connected to wireless networks of increasing ban...

With rapid advances in computer technologies and the trend in personal computing advancing towards mobile computers, small personal digital assistants (PDAs) are getting more and more popular. PDA are fast becoming a way of life. Designing a convenient, lightweight and powerful PDA involves many constraints. We will talk about overcoming some of these issues in the operating system. This paper ...

UNLABELLED Dental evidence, especially from radiographs, has been found to be an effective method in personal identification. Previously, it has been shown that wireless personal digital assistants (PDA) can be used to transfer digitized radiographs. The purpose of this study was to set up a secure and reliable mobile connection for transferring dental digital images for disaster victim identif...