Technology adoption models specify a pathway of technology acceptance from external variables to beliefs, intentions, adoption and actual usage. Mobile phone adoption has been studied from a variety of perspectives, including sociology, computer-supported ...

Smart mobile phones are a widely available class of computing platforms with rich internal devices and a communications infrastructure that can be appropriated and exploited to support environmental sensing, social networks, and healthcare applications. ...

The paper presents an effective mobile-to-mobile payment system. A mobile phone with or without SIM card is enabled as an EMV payment instrument and is linked to a debit or credit account in a bank to pay merchant who has a mobile phone or an on-line ...

Despite the importance of physical activity to health, many people do not meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity. In order to gain a greater understanding of people's activity levels and patterns in everyday life we designed a mobile activity ...

The arrival of the mobile phone and its rapid and widespread growth may well be seen as one of the most significant developments in the fields of communication and information technology over the past two decades. The aim of this study is to propose ...

The characteristics of mobile phone usage when user is moving are different from those when user is sedentary or working in an office (Baek et al., 2006). This means that the default vibration frequency of current mobile phones may not be suitable for ...

Using data collected from three UK operators (O2, Orange and Vodafone) this paper incorporates population density, provider-claimed accuracy, achieved-accuracy as determined using a reference network and base station parameters to form an extremely comprehensive ...

In this paper, we describe a new approach for augmented reality on mobile devices. Our focus is on providing high-fidelity photorealistic images to the user, thus accepting to lose the real-time-property of other approaches. We describe a system that ...

Information and functions available in mobile phones increase all the time, but at the same time the size of the phones decreases. This leads to a problem of presenting efficiently as much information as possible on a small display. Here a visual search ...

The purpose of this paper is to formulate a functional platform that supports the e-learning objectives: study individually and freely. The proposed platform is based on 3G mobile phone technology, it is integrated with operation system and application ...

Mobile communications suffer from cochannel interference, adjacent channel interference and fading. The cell capacity or the number of users per cell is limited by the interference. In this paper we analyze a new blind adaptive array structure ...

This article describes experiments of using the short message services (SMS) of mobile telephone systems in efforts to reduce nonresponse in mail surveys. SMS may provide a new tool for increasing the efficiency of the data collection process in self-administered ...

Given that no all new mobile telecommunications technology are accepted by the mass market, this study aims to understand the mass adoption of third-generation (3G) mobile phones that is hypothesized to comprise three consumer perceptions: new technology, ...

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a mobile phone interface with and for children. Ten children aged 8-13 years old took part in a participatory design process and ten others evaluated the design. Whilst there were similarities in the problems ...

Today's powerful networked personal computing devices offer a solid technical basis for mobile ad-hoc networking in support of consumer applications independent of operator networks. However,running Internet protocols directly on top ad-hoc routing protocols ...

Exposure to celular mobile communication electromagnetic fields has raised public concern regarding possible adverse effects to people exposed to such radiation. At frequency 900 MHz the most important parameter used to assess human exposure to electromagnetic ...

Many mobile phones integrate services such as personal calendars. Given the social nature of the stored data, however, users often need to access such information as part of a phone conversation. In typical non-headset use, this re-quires users to interrupt ...

Shortly after the advent of digital mobile phone service, a new innovative way of doing business known as mobile commerce (M-commerce) was created. Mobile commerce has been a huge success in terms of individuals’ adoption in some markets like Japan, ...

This paper describes how a mobile phone can be used as a six degree of freedom interaction device for 3D mesh editing. Using a video see-through Augmented Reality approach, the mobile phone meets several design guidelines for a natural, easy to learn, ...