Background: The present study aimed at investigating the role of depression and attachment styles in predicting cell phone addiction. Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, a sample including 100 students of Payame Noor University (PNU), Reyneh Center, Iran, in the academic year of 2013-2014 was selected using volunteer sampling. Participants were asked to complete the adult attachme...

Three of ten teenagers in Korea are addicted to mobile phones. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between mobile phone addiction and the incidence of poor sleep quality and short sleep duration in adolescents. We used longitudinal data from the Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute in Korea (2011-2013). A total of 1,125 students...

We present a review of the studies that have been published about addiction to cell phones. We analyze the concept of cell-phone addiction as well as its prevalence, study methodologies, psychological features, and associated psychiatric comorbidities. Research in this field has generally evolved from a global view of the cell phone as a device to its analysis via applications and contents. The...

With the increase in the number of smart phone users worldwide there comes a high demand for smart phone based location systems. Within the project “Indoor positioning using inertial measurement units” an android application has been developed wherein the position of the smart phone user with respect to the floor environment is determined. This has been achieved using the smart phone sensors st...

Background: The initial years of a medical student’s life can be challenging. Coping mechanisms with internet technology have adverse health effects. This study assessed the depression, addiction and nutritional status among junior students.
 Materials methods: cross-sectional was conducted first third semester students new central institute in South India. Depression were by Patient Healt...

Various kinds of technologies in other fields are adapted to smartphone efficiently to support convenient daily life service to smart-phone users. However, designing and developing techniques of smart-phone system become complicate for adapting new technologies with mobile communication network. Thus, we suggest a real time location-based system with augmented reality as one of a smart phone ap...