Mobile Apps: Motivational Influencers

Today’s mobile device users demand mobile apps in order to maintain online social ties, to remain up-to-date with weather and new events, to be entertained, and to be productive in their professional and personal lives, no matter where they are. This emergent research study examines the perceptions of individuals regarding the motivational power of mobile apps post-adoption. A survey of college-age individuals is being performed beginning the spring of 2017, and among the findings expected is a positive confirmation that mobile apps are motivational influencers toward education, entertainment, communication, social, and other purposes

The Relationship between Content Used, Time Spent and Cyberbullying on Social Media with Social Skills

Based on the past research, there are still limited studies in proving content used on social media, time spent on social media, cyberbullying contributes to the social skills which is deemed unimportant and irrelevant in Malaysia. Therefore, this study is intended to show the variables do have relationship to one another, determining each of the objective in this research is proven to be right. This study applied the Theory of Planned Behaviour as the main theory to fortify and take the relationships at a greater distance between each variable. Quantitative methods were applied in this study and data were collected through the distribution of questionnaires to 181 respondents who were students at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech MARA pursuing Diploma in Corporate Communication. In addition, the findings showed a significant relationship between content used on social media, time spent on social media, cyberbullying to behaviour and reaction of an individual. Established evidence between variables that are, content used on social media, time spent on social media and cyberbullying is affecting behaviour and reaction of an individual. Hence, this study assisted to the field of communication through the establishment of a more comprehensive variables related to behaviour and reaction of an individual and supported to Planned Behavior Theory

Design Address on Phubbing During Dining

Phubbing is the practice of ignoring one\u27s companion or companions to pay attention to one\u27s phone or other mobile device. What happens when phubbing occurs in situations such as eating with friends? Phubbing instantly stops the interaction, and this unconsciousness behavior may affect the mood of one’s companions, destroy the taste of one’s food, or ruin one’s relationships. Using a phone while eating is not a bad practice. People often use their phones to record the moment, to capture the delicious food, or to share information with others. The best way to deal with hurt caused by phubbing during dining is not to prohibit the use of smart devices, but instead to provide an appropriate manner to use them. In this thesis, I\u27ve designed a dining table decoration that features phone storage. This design not only provides a safe location to keep phones clean, but also gathers phones into one location so that if a user receives a mobile notification, the decoration will attract his or her attention to it. In this way, no one is the first to stop group interaction. By gathering everyone’s phones at the center of the dining table, accessing one’s phone becomes a group action. By keeping the source of notifications ambiguous, phubbing becomes more fun, and generates fewer negative feelings about the use of mobile devices during meals

Digital Detox – Mitigating Digital Overuse in Times of Remote Work and Social Isolation

Remote work arrangements and limited recreational options in times of social isolation increase the risk of digital overuse for individuals. Its consequences can range from impaired mental health to issues of technology addiction. A conformant countermovement has popularised “digital detoxing”, a practice that endorses to deliberately limit technology use to reduce digital involvement and physiological stress. In times of social isolation, however, digital networking may provide the principle access to social interactions. To provide empirical evidence about the sweet spot between mitigating digital overuse and perceived social connectedness, this paper proposes a mixed-methods design to scrutinise the impact of digital detox measures in a professional context. Possible results will help to better understand how digital overuse may effectively be mitigated by remote workers and what measures organisations can take to create a digital environment that supports employee satisfaction and mental health

Smartphones Adoption and Usage of 50+ Adults in the United Kingdom

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Jyoti Choudrie, Sherah Kurnia, and Panayiota Tsatsou, eds., Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-enabled Services, on October 2017, available online at: https://www.routledge.com/Social-Inclusion-and-Usability-of-ICT-enabled-Services/Choudrie-Kurnia-Tsatsou/p/book/9781138935556. Under embargo until 30 April 2019.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

The evolution of energy requirements of smartphones based on user behaviour and implications of the COVID-19 era

Smartphones have evolved to become frequent companions to humans. The common problem shared by Android users of smartphones was, and continues to be, about saving their batteries and preventing the need to use any recharging tools. A significant number of studies have been performed in the general field of "saving energy in smartphones". During a state of global lockdown, the use of smartphone devices has skyrocketed, and many governments have implemented location-tracking applications for their citizens as means of ensuring that the imposed governmental restrictions are being adhered to. Since smartphones are battery-powered, the opportunity to conserve electricity and ensure that the handset does not have to be charged so much or that it does not die and impede location-tracking during this period of crisis is of vital significance, impacting not only the reliability of tracking, but also the usability of the mobile itself. While there are methods to reduce the battery’s drain from mobile app use, they are not fully utilized by users. Simultaneously, the following the manuscript demonstrates the growing prevalence of mobile applications in daily lives, as well as the disproportionally increasing phone functionality, which results in the creation of a dependency towards smartphone use and the need of energy to recharge and operate theses smartphones

Friendship and courtship in the era of smartphone: experience from youths in higher learning institutions in Dodoma Municipality Tanzania

Purpose: As technological advancement in terms of digital communication is increased, the use of smartphones among individuals as a source of information and community practices also increased. The study examined the role of the smartphone in building friendships and courtships among youth in public academic institutions in Dodoma Municipality.Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The study used mixed methods including surveys and interviews to understand the way youths utilise smartphones in building friendships and courtship. Descriptive and content data analysis were used to analyse the data.Findings: The findings revealed that smartphone has significantly enabled youth to access valuable information about their intimate friends and courting partners. It also revealed that functions provided by smartphone enabled youth to keep their partners closer by utilising social media networks.Research Limitation: The study focused only on youths in Higher Learning Institutions in Dodoma City, Tanzania thus limiting generalisations.Practical implications: The study recommends the need for a policy that protects personal information shared through a smartphone for the wellbeing of youths and society’s digital practices.Social implications: The personal data protection policy will help to protect the privacy rights of youths and all members of the community in general, against any possible abuse which has gained unprecedented attention, especially in the current information age.Originality/ Value: The study will contribute to improving policy decisions to protect the current digital generation against the violation of personal data shared via digital communication

Nomophobia in teenagers: digital lifestyle, social networking and smartphone abuse

Smartphone use influences teenagers’ behaviors and lifestyles, not always in a positive way. Abuse and dependence on the use of this device is what has led to the study of nomophobia. The objective of this research is to measure the level of nomophobia in adolescents, and to study their digital consumption habits. The study seeks to analyze the relationships between risk of nomophobia, digital behavior, age and smartphone use. A structured questionnaire has been applied to a sample of 850 students aged 12 to 16. The data has been analyzed with SPSS and SPAD. Multivariate statistical characterization, one of the most recent data mining techniques, has been used to study differences in teenagers’ behaviors according to their risk of nomophobia, and to find related explanatory variables. Teenagers’ nomophobia risk ranges from mild to moderate, showing a relation with age, academic performance and intensity of use of mobile social networking apps. The risk of nomophobia responds to differences in students’ digital, social, relational and educational behaviors, and exhibits differences according to academic performance, age, gender, motivation and self-perception

Adaptation and validation of estonian fear of missing out (FoMO) scale

Magistritöö eesmärk on uurida ilmajäämishirmu (FoMO) eestikeelse küsimustiku psühhomeetrilisi omadusi, valiidsust ja reliaablust, ning kohandada küsimustik eesti keelde. FoMO peegeldab vajadust olla pidevalt kursis sellega, mida teised teevad. See on hirm, et teised kogevad meelepäraseid elamusi, millest inimene tunneb ennast ilmajäänuna. FoMO on varasema kirjanduse põhjal seotud problemaatilise nutitelefonide ja sotsiaalmeedia kasutamise ning psüühikahäiretega (nt depressioon ja ärevus). Käesolevas uurimuses osales 426 inimest, kes täitsid küsimustikekomplekti, millega hinnati FoMO faktorstruktuuri, sisemist kooskõla, ennustavat ja konkureerivat valiidsust ning gruppidevahelisi erinevusi FoMO skooris. Tulemused näitasid, et eestikeelne FoMO omab vastuvõetavat sisemist kooskõla ning ühefaktorilist struktuuri. FoMO on positiivselt seotud problemaatilise nutitelefonikasutusega ning depressiooni, üldise ärevushäire ja sotsiaalfoobia sümptomitega. Lisaks esines seos vanusega - noorematel inimestel esinevad kõrgemad FoMO skoorid. Magistritöö tulemusena saab järeldada, et eestikeelne FoMO on usaldusväärne mõõdik, mida edasistes uurimustes kasutada

노인에서 스마트폰 사용과 노쇠의 연관성 및 관련요인

학위논문(석사)--서울대학교 대학원 :보건대학원 보건학과(보건학전공),2019. 8. 조성일.Introduction: With worldwide aging, there are many ongoing studies to further identify the risk factors and ways to prevent age-related conditions. The most actively studied areas include frailty in the elderly. Rapid development and increasing use of smartphones have come to play an important role in health industries. Despite the increasing importance of smartphone use for sustaining healthy life, no large study has reported the characteristics of elderly smartphone users. Our hypothesis is that the ownership of a smartphone is inversely associated with frailty because smartphone owners can benefit from various health applications to manage their health, and the use of smartphone itself can be a good cognitive exercise that can help prevent frailty. Therefore, the aim of this study is to describe the various sociodemographic and medical characteristics of the elderly smartphone users and non-users, and to identify the association between the use of smartphones and frailty. The obtained information may be helpful to screening frailty in small clinics. Methods: We used the baseline data of the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study which is a nationwide cohort study conducted to identify and prevent the factors contributing to aging and frailty. The data of a total of 2935 participants were analyzed for various demographic, socioeconomic, cognitive, and functional characteristics as well as frailty. Frailty was defined using Fried frailty index. The characteristics of the participants were described in terms of smartphone ownership, and multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between the use of smartphones and frailty. Results: Out of 2935 participants aged between 70 and 84, 1404 (47.8%) participants were using smartphones, and 1531 (52.2%) participants were using cellphones other than smartphones or did not own a cellphone. The mean age of all participants was 76.0 years old. The smartphone users were more likely to be male (53.3%), with higher educational and economic background compared to non-users. They were also more likely to be in a marital relationship and not living alone, but received less social support, and exhibited poorer daily functional abilities. However, they exhibited higher cognitive capabilities, and more importantly, less frail in all aspects of frailty criteria compared to smartphone non-users. The odds ratio of the association between smartphone ownership and frailty was 0.47, 95% confidence interval 039-055, after adjusting for various related factors. Conclusion: Ownership of a smartphone is a result of multifactorial circumstances and conditions as is frailty. Smartphone non-users in this study were more frail than smartphone users, and exhibited poorer cognitive abilities while maintaining better daily functional abilities and social interaction. Therefore, it is our conclusion that the ownership of a smartphone in older adults represents many background factors that are often linked to frailty in an inverse manner, and a simple question or identification of ones type of phone may be used in conjunction with other methods to screen frailty in older adults.배경 및 목적 : 전 세계적으로 고령화가 진행됨에 따라 만성질환을 예방할 수 있는 위험요소와 방법을 파악하고자 하는 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 노쇠는 가장 활발하게 연구되고 있는 분야 중 하나이다. 노쇠 연구와 동시에 지난 수년간 스마트폰은 빠른 발전과 성장을 보여 이제 건강 사업에 중요한 역할을 하게 되었다. 건강한 삶의 영위에 스마트폰 사용의 중요성이 증가하고 있음에도 불구하고 노인 스마트폰 사용자들의 특성에 관한 대규모 연구는 미미하다. 본 연구의 가설은 스마트폰 소유자들은 건강을 관리하기 위해 다양한 스마트폰 애플리케이션을 사용할 수 있으며 스마트폰의 사용 자체가 좋은 인지기능 발달운동이 되기 때문에 스마트폰 소유자들에게 노쇠가 덜 존재할 것이라는 것이다. 따라서, 본 연구를 통해 노인 스마트폰 사용자 및 비사용자의 다양한 사회인구학적 및 의학적 특성을 기술하고, 스마트폰 사용과 노쇠의 연관성을 확인하고자 한다. 이를 통해 얻은 정보는 소규모 의료시설에서 노쇠를 선별하는데 큰 도움이 될 것이다. 방법 : 본 연구는 한국노인노쇠코호트사업(KFACS)의 자료를 1차 자료를 사용하여 진행되었다. KFACS는 노화 및 노쇠와 관련한 인자들을 찾아내고 이를 예방하고자 진행되고 있는 한국의 국가기반 코호트 연구이다. 만 70세에서 84세의 총 2935명 참가자의 데이터를 사용하여 다양한 인구학적, 사회경제적, 인지적 및 기능적 특성과 관련된 분석을 진행하였으며 노쇠와의 관련성 또한 분석하였다. 노쇠는 Fried 노쇠지수를 사용하여 정의하였다. 참가자들의 특성을 스마트폰 소유 유무에 따라 기술하였으며 로지스틱 다중회귀분석을 수행하여 스마트폰 사용과 노쇠의 연관성을 평가하였다. 결과 : 총 2935명의 참가자 중 1404명(47.8%)이 스마트폰을 사용하였으며 1531명(52.2%)는 스마트폰이 아닌 핸드폰을 사용하거나 핸드폰을 가지고 있지 않았다. 참가자들의 평균 연령은 76.0세였다. 스마트폰 사용자들은 남성이 더 많았으며 (53.3%), 비사용자들에 비해 교육 및 경제적 수준이 높았다. 사용자들은 또한 결혼상태인 비율이 높고 독거의 비율이 낮았으나 사회적 상호관계가 적었고 더 낮은 일상적 능력을 보여주었다. 이에 반해 인지기능은 더 뛰어났으며, 특히 노쇠기준의 5가지 항목 모두에서 비사용자들보다 뛰어난 상태를 보였다. 스마트폰 사용과 노쇠의 연관성의 교차비는 다양한 관련 요소를 보정한 후 0.47이었으며 95% 신뢰구간은 0.39~0.55였다. 결론 : 스마트폰의 소유는 노쇠와 마찬가지로 여러가지 요소가 상호작용한 결과물이다. 본 연구에서는 스마트폰 비사용자들이 스마트폰 사용자들보다 더 뛰어난 일상적 능력과 사회적 상호관계를 보여주었으나 인지기능이 더 부족하였으며 더 높은 노쇠의 비율을 나타내었다. 따라서, 고령자의 스마트폰 소유는 종종 노쇠와 역상관관계를 나타내는 여러가지 인자를 대변한다고 볼 수 있으며, 어떤 타입의 핸드폰을 사용하고 있는지에 대한 간단히 질문이 다른 노쇠 관련 선별검사와 함께 작은 의료기관에서 노쇠를 선별하기 위한 좋은 방법이 될 수 있겠다.Chapter 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Aging society and frailty 1 1.2. Adoption of smartphones 1 1.2.1. mHealth 1 1.2.2. Characteristics of elderly smartphone adopters 2 1.3. Frailty and smartphones 3 1.4. Objective 4 Chapter 2. Materials and Methods 6 2.1. Study Design and Population 6 2.2. Definition of Frailty 6 2.3. Other covariates of interest 7 2.4. Statistical Methods 9 Chapter 3. Results 10 3.1. General characteristics of the participants 10 3.2. Distribution of smartphone use and prevalence of frailty 15 3.3. Social, functional, and cognitive assessments 21 3.4. Association between smartphone use and frailty 26 Chapter 4. Discussion 32 4.1. Characteristics of elderly smartphone users and non-users 32 4.2. Digital frailty 36 4.3. Strengths and limitations 38 Chapter 5. Conclusion 41 References 42 Abstract in Korean 46Maste