Abstract
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 18 August 2014Sec. Environmental health and Exposome Volume 2 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2014.00122
Highlights
A smartphone is an important all-in-one device in today’s lifestyle, decreasing the number of other technological cumbersome and heavy-weighted tools that professionals need to carry at a time
The alarming messages banning the use of phones seem to be inefficient, since people tend to ignore the recommendation against the use of phones, or they forget to cutoff the ringtones of their phones while participating or attending social or professional meetings
Workers, and administrators, who have regular tasks, in any domain, frequently forget that their phones are ringing and disturbing audience. To reduce such recurrent noise disturbances, I would suggest a proposal for developing a smartphone application that would switch the ringtone On/Off automatically at regular intervals to reduce the noise pollution associated with smartphones, for people having regular tasks over the time
Summary
A smartphone is an important all-in-one device in today’s lifestyle, decreasing the number of other technological cumbersome and heavy-weighted tools that professionals need to carry at a time (phone, camera, GPS, laptop, book, credit card, video player, and so on). Through the installation of additional applications (apps), the list of potential uses of smartphones grows longer every day, both for professional and personal life activities. Most of us have been disturbed by intempestive phone’s ringing at least tens of times in different places at social or professional occasions.
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