Search results for "mobile"

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…

Gender differences in usage and user experience of Oiva App

2015

Previous research has indicated that gender is an important demographic to consider when designing effective and tailored technology interventions. Despite this need, gender differences is still an understudied topic in the field of technology interventions. The objective of this study was to study gender differences in usage and user experience of a mental wellness app called Oiva. Gender differences in the app’s effect on the participants’ mental well-being were also investigated. Oiva is a stand-alone mental wellness app that aims to increase its users’ psychological flexibility by teaching Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based skills. The study population of the current study wa…

Influence on the transient evoked otoacoustic emission by GSM 915 MHz electromagnetic fields: comparative analysis between control and exposed groups

2006

An Exact Solution for the Level-Crossing Rate and the Average Duration of Fades of the Envelope of Sum-of-Cisoids Processes

2012

Authors version of an article published in the journal: Procedia Technology. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2012.03.004 Sum-of-cisoids (SOC) processes provide a physically and numerically appealing framework for the modelling and simulation of a wide class of mobile radio channels. This paper is concerned with the problem of finding a general solution for the level-crossing rate (LCR) and the average duration of fades (ADF) of the envelope of SOC processes. Exact expressions are derived for the LCR and the ADF by taking into account that the inphase component, the quadrature component, and the time derivatives of the inphase and quadrature component…

Vertical Line Array (VLA) Beam - Forming Algorithm with constant beam width.

2005

The algorithm proposed is a beam-forming algorithm. Many beam-steering and beam-forming algorithms exist and they are all based on the control of delay times between the signals driving the loudspeakers of the line array; this kind of control produces a variable beam-width depending on steering angle and frequency. In our case beam width doesn't depend on frequency and steering angle because a specific beam forming technique was applied by shading the amplitudes of signals for each element of the array according to the frequency applied. Furthermore a weighting function was utilized for spatial windowing. Spatial windowing allows reduction of secondary lobes without varying the directivity …

User behaviours after critical mobile application incidents : the relationship with situational context

2017

Users occasionally have critical incidents with information systems (IS). A critical IS incident is an IS product or service experience that a user considers to be unusually positive or negative. Critical IS incidents are highly influential in terms of users’ overall perceptions and customer relationships; thus, they are crucial for IS product and service providers. Therefore, it is important to study user behaviors after such incidents. Within IS, the relationships between the situational context and user behaviors after critical incidents have not been addressed at all. Prior studies on general mobile use as a related research area have recognized the influence of the situational context,…

User Expressions Translated into Requirements

2010

Grounding the development of mobile and ubiquitous services on actual needs and behaviors of users, rather than on designers’ intuition, is a well-established tradition. However, gathering data about users in different contexts usually results in large amounts of data that have to be analyzed and translated into requirements. This crucial activity and its outcome are often shaped by the preconceptions of the developers or researchers. Despite this subjectivity, the translation process is seldom transparent. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to contribute to the field by presenting a process for translating user expressions into needs and later into requirements using Reiss’ taxonomy of h…

Digital community design : exploring the role of mobile social software in the process of digital convergence

2010

Effects of Personal Traits on Generation Y Consumers' Attitudes Toward the Use of Mobile Devices for Communication and Commerce

2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of young adult consumers’ personal traits (high-tech involvement, experiment proclivity, and fashion/brand leadership) on their perceptions of and attitudes toward using mobile devices for communications and commerce. The integrated stimulus-organism-responses paradigm (Fiore & Kim, 2007) served as the overarching framework, combining the uses and gratifications theory (Blumler & Katz, 1974) and the extended technology acceptance model (Kim, Ma, & Park, 2009). A convenience sample of 504 college students in 2 U. S. universities provided usable responses to our survey. Causal modeling analysis results showed that personal trait varia…

Zināšanu pārbaudes testi izmantošanai viedierīcēs

2018

Diplomdarbā aprakstītā pētījuma mērķis izpētīt mobilo testu izmantošanas aktualitāti un pielietošanas iespējas, lai veicinātu to izmantošanu pedagoģiskajā procesā. Pētījumam izmantoto datu ieguves kvalitatīvās metodes ir intervijas un platformu analīze, kvantitatīvā - pedagogu aptauja. Interviju respondenti ir sākumskolas, vidusskolas un augstskolas pedagogi, kā arī Uzdevumi.lv direktors Edgars Škutāns. Tika vadīts seminārs, iepazīstinot profesionālās vidusskolas Mediju mākslas nodaļas pedagogus ar zināšanu pārbaudes testu platformu QUIZIZZ, pēc kura tika veikta pedagogu aptauja. Pētījumā noskaidrots, ka viedierīcērs izmantojamo zināšanu pārbaudes testu galvenās priekšrocības ir automātiska…