Many automobile drivers are aware of the driving behaviours and habits that can lead to inefficient and unsafe driving. However, it is often the case that these same drivers unknowingly exhibit these inefficient and unsafe driving behaviours in their everyday driving activity. This paper proposes a practical and economical way to capture, measure, and alert drives of inefficient and unsafe driv...

Issue addressed: Mobile applications are increasingly being used in health promotion initiatives. Although there is evidence that developing these mobile health applications in multidisciplinary teams is good practice, there is a gap in the literature with respect to evaluation of the process of this partnership model and how best to disseminate the application into the community. The aim of th...

Gamification is a growing field in education, e.g. for e-learning software on mobile devices. Gamification uses game elements in a non-game context to engage users. But it is necessary to know how this can influence learners. In a study the impact on motivation by gamification for language learning in conjunction with mobile learning was investigated. For this purpose a mobile app to learn the ...

This paper gives an overview of mobile computing and issues related to the field. The discussion starts with definitions of various terms associated with mobile computing. The diversity of mobile applications is explored to give readers an idea of what mobile computing has to offer, followed by a discussion on the limitations of wireless networks and the issues which have to be addressed in ord...

The increasing ubiquity of mobile computing devices has made ad hoc networks everyday occurrences. In these highly dynamic environments, the multitude of devices provides a varied and rapidly changing environment in which applications must learn to operate. Successful end-user applications will not only learn to function in this environment but will take advantage of the variety of information ...

With more and more people using variety of apps on their smart phones, security provided by these apps is becoming an important research consideration. The key objective of this work is to define and analyze some of the major security issues related to mobile apps. In this paper security concerns in a mobile app are highlighted. Further solutions for the same are suggested. Recent market trends...

Simply put, the term “mobile phone silencer” is a generic one that describes a class of devices that disrupt mobile phone service. Their purpose is to create a “silent zone,” in which normal cell coverage is interfered with and in which mobile phones cannot operate. This, supposedly, enforces phone etiquette in places where ring tones and phone conversations are unacceptable or forbidden. Some ...

The MobiLife project researches new mobile applications and services that will support busy family members in their everyday lives. A user study was conducted with 17 families (61 participants) in Italy and Finland to discuss the user tasks and behaviors in illustrative MobiLife scenarios of use. The results of this study related to scheduling, group coordination, and time management for the fa...

Videos are the most useful and only approach to represent audiovisual information. Today all the communication approaches are working with such kind of media. The problem with such kind of media is its large size. Data is required to be stored in the database or to be transferred over communication medium. Size of video always affects the efficiency. Video compression is required to save the st...

There have been many developments in the field of mobile technology in the last few years. Mobile technology grown very fast. Initially mobiles were only for rich but now all household have mobiles and using mobile technology because of great development in this field. Which is possible due to research in this area. Not only big companies but individuals also been engaged in this field. Billion...