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Terveysmobiilipelien kaupallinen potentiaali
2015
Mobiilipelaaminen on jatkuvasti kasvava vapaa-ajan viettotapa ja siten ovat mobiilipelimarkkinatkin kasvaneet. Ylipaino ja muut terveyden ongelmat, joi-hin ihmiset itse voisivat vaikuttaa, ovat yleistymässä. Terveysmobiilipelien on ehdotettu olevan osaratkaisu näihin ongelmiin. Tässä kirjallisuuskatsauksena toteutetussa tutkielmassa käsiteltiin mobiilipelimarkkinoiden ja terveysmobiilipelien kehitystä. Mobiilipelimarkkinoiden kehitystä tarkasteltiin tilastotietojen perusteella ja niissä näkyviin muutoksiin esitettiin syitä. Terveysmobiilipelien kehitystä tarkasteltiin hyötyviihdettä kehityksen näkökulmasta. Näistä aiheista tehtiin johtopäätöksiä ja pohdittiin, onko terveysmobiilipeleillä ma…
Energiatehokkaan mobiilisovellusohjelmoinnin välineitä
2017
Älypuhelimista on tullut suosittuja ja ne ovat kehittyneet nopeasti, tarjoten jatkuvasti tehokkaampia suorittimia sekä nopeampia langattomia verkkotekniikoita. Laitteiston kehittyminen on luonut markkinat entistä monipuolisemmille ja kehittyneemmille mobiilisovelluksille, mutta mobiililaitteiden käytettävyys riippuu kokonaan niiden akun mahdollistamasta käyttöajasta. Niinpä sovelluskehittäjien on pystyttävä tarjoaman energiatehokkaita sovelluksia, joissa on silti monimutkaisia toimintoja. Energiatehokkaiden sovellusten kehittäminen vaatii kuitenkin energiatehokkaan ohjelmoinnin käytänteitä ja menetelmiä valittujen ratkaisujen energiankulutuksen arviointiin. Tässä työssä suoritetaan kattava …
Estereotipos asociados al cuerpo humano: análisis de aplicaciones móviles usadas en la educación físico-deportiva
2022
Institutions and educators are massively and uncritically integrating digital curricular materials in their teaching praxis. This article aims to uncover whether health and fitness APP images convey or legitimize stereotypes linked to bodies, focusing on gender, race, somatotype and physical activity practice. We also analyse whether these apps are adequate for the recommended age or whether they are designed by physical education professionals. For that purpose, we designed a descriptive, comparative study based on content analysis on a sample of 373 images from 128 apps selected through a PRISMA review and a pilot test. Our results report that bodies reproduce a series of stereotypes: of …
Mobile Technology Adoption and the Effects of Cultural Factors
2019
Mobile technologies are an important part of human life in both the personal and professional realms. Many services (banking, news, health, education, etc.) that traditionally offered either face-to-face, telephone, or other conventional platforms and technologies are now establishing services on mobile platforms as well. Mobile gadgets are now also being used by company employees as sales automation tools. The importance of culture in technology adoption and usage has been well-established. The adoption of any technology includes a set of factors that determine if the technology is either accepted or rejected, and the individual strengths of these determining factors may vary greatly, depe…
Personal correlates of problematic types of social media and mobile phone use in emerging adults
2019
We investigated the occurrence of selected types of problematic social media and mobile phone use in emerging adults, specifically social media and mobile phone overuse, phubbing, creeping, and catfishing. Contemporaneous relations with age, gender, and Big Five personality traits were examined. The participants comprised 459 Slovenian emerging adults, aged 18 to 29 years (68% female). The results suggest that problematic behaviors associated with social media and mobile phone use, with the exception of catfishing, are relatively common among young people. The examined behaviors were negatively related to age, and overuse of mobile phones, social media, and creeping were more prevalent in f…
A Smartphone App to Promote Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy (HealthyMoms) : Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Tr…
2019
Mobilities and the network of personal technologies: Refining the understanding of mobility structure
2017
Our ambition here is to refine the various typologies that compose the mobility structure. We aim to complement the work done by Urry and investigate the role played in the structure of mobility by what we call the “network of personal technologies”. Our new model consists of four different levels: macro-mobilities, micro-mobilities, media mobility and disembodied mobilities. By “macro-mobilities,” we refer to the actions which imply consistent physical displacement, such as travels, tours and commuting. By “micro-mobilities,” we mean small-scale displacements, including bodily movements and emotions. With moving media, we refer both to the new mobility provided by the smartphone to the tra…
Stages of Exercise Behavior Change in a Digital Wellness Program for Aged People : Relationship With Self-Efficacy for Exercise
2022
Sustained physical activity and exercise are central to healthy ageing. Yet, the majority of aged people are insufficiently physically active. Digital wellness technologies are potential in promoting exercise behaviors among aged people, but more detailed research on their potential to promote behavior change is limited. To address this gap, the purpose is to investigate how partaking in a digital wellness program influences the stage of exercise behavior change among aged people and to test whether self-efficacy for exercise can differentiate the program participants in terms of the stages of change. The investigation builds on the stages of exercise behavior change derived from the transt…
Modélisation des choix d'itinéraires pédestres en milieu urbain. Approche géographique et paysagère
2006
Nowadays, on foot journeys create renewed interest as a complementary mode of transport. Indeed, local decision makers appear as willing to reduce the imbalance between different ways of transport within the cities. In the field of Geography the term ‘mobility' refers to the practice of exchanges and movements done by individuals or groups of individuals; this mobility is likely to reveal the characteristics of places and to contribute to their alteration. Among all the modes of transport, walking implies a privileged relation between persons and area they live in. As an element of the living environment used on a daily basis and eventually integrated by the prism of perception the visible …
Ustekinumab therapy changes the transcriptional activity pattern of TGF-β1–3 genes
2019
Introduction One of the examples of genes whose expression can be altered by the action of ustekinumab is TGF-β. It is a pleiotropic cytokine whose activity affects psoriatic changes and the state of homeostasis of the whole organism. Aim To evaluate the effect of ustekinumab on the transcriptional activity of TGF-b family genes in patients with psoriatic arthritis and to check whether the results obtained can be helpful in monitoring the progress of treatment. Material and methods From total PBMCs obtained from peripheral blood of 14 patients with psoriatic arthritis, total RNA was isolated. The expression level of the TGF-β1, TGF-β2 and TGF-β3 genes was determined by RT-qPCR in real time.…