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Mobile Apps and Social Media
2017
1The increasing penetration of smartphones among global population, especially among youth and children, has define a mobile and interactive media use without any precedent. A global connected world is the context in where our offspring are developing self-competences in media literacy because they manage technological devices at very early ages. This context is the state of affairs of this article in which we present two different steps: firstly, a theoretical study, showing the impact of mobile devices, focusing on smartphones and mobile applications where the question arisen is: What are children and young doing while online? Media literacy is also described in order to apply its dimensi…
A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol for Using an Accelerometer-Smartphone Application Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Healt…
2021
Physical activity is beneficial for improving health and reducing sick leave absences. This article describes a protocol for an intervention using an interactive accelerometer smartphone application, telephone counselling, and physical activity recordings to increase the physical activity of workers in the military and improve their health. Under the protocol, employees from six military brigades in Finland will be randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The intervention group’s participants will use accelerometers to measure their daily physical activities and their quality of sleep for six months. They will receive feedback based on these measurements via a smartphone applic…
End Users’ Perspective of Performance Issues in Google Play Store Reviews
2022
The success of mobile applications is closely tied to their performance which shapes the user experience and satisfaction. Most users often delete mobile apps from their devices due to poor performance indicating a mobile app’s failure in the competitive market. This paper performs a quantitative and qualitative analysis and investigates performance-related issues in Google Play Store reviews. This study has been conducted on 368,704 reviews emphasizing more 1- and 2-star reviews distributed over 55 Android apps. Our research also reports a taxonomy of 8 distinct performance issues obtained using manual inspection. Our findings show that end-users recurrently raised Updation (69.11%), Respo…
Why Do Users Switch Mobile Applications? : Trialing Behavior as a Predecessor of Switching Behavior
2018
Mobile application providers face high user losses because users can easily and often switch to an alternative application. Researchers have recently started to study information technology (IT) switching. However, no studies have concentrated on the unique context of mobile applications. Mobile application switching differs from the switching behavior related to many other IT products and services because of the highlighted role of alternatives, beta versions, updates, reviews, and users’ spontaneous behavior. To address this gap, we develop a mobile-specific model by using a qualitative research approach. As a theoretical contribution, we introduce trialing behavior as a predecessor of sw…
User expectations, use experiences and continued adoption of a mobile secure communication application
2018
The importance of secure communication between employees in enterprises and governmental organizations as well as technologies to support that has increased tremendously over the past years. This study examines the user expectations before and the use experiences during the implementation phase of a mobile secure communication application together with expectation–confirmation and its influence on continued adoption. The study is explorative in nature and empirically based on thematic analysis of qualitative data collected from pilot users of a mobile secure communication application who work in a governmental organization in Finland. The theoretical basis of the study draws from two well-e…
Efektīva arābu valodas apguve mobilajās lietotnēs
2021
Bakalaura darbā ''Efektīva arābu valodas apguve mobilajās lietotnēs'' tiek pētīta arābu valodas apguve mobilajās lietotnēs. Šī darba mērķis ir aplūkot efektīvas arābu valodas apguves metodes, kuras ir iespējams izmantot arābu valodas apguves mobilajās lietotnēs. Mūsdienās ļoti strauji pieaug pieprasījums pēc viedtālruņiem, cilvēki aizvien vairāk izmanto tieši mobilās lietotnes, tāpēc pieaug arī pieprasījums pēc valodas apguves mobilajām lietotnēm. Mobilās lietotnes ir iespējams lietot neatkarīgi no atrašanās vietas un laika, kas ir liels ieguvums valodu apguvē, sevišķi arābu valodas apguvē. Sākotnēji pirmajā nodaļā tiek pētīta valodas apguves metodoloģija, kādu ir iespējams pielāgot arābu v…