Abstract
Over the last few years, smart phones have been replaced by landlines, cellular phones and other older versions of mobile phones. Smartphones and other personal electronic devices like laptop, tab, iPad etc. has made our lives easier by providing access to almost everything making our lives more comfortable and easier. In-spite of these several benefits associated with smartphones and personal electronic devices yet excessive usage results in affecting the mental and physical health of the people. The recent pandemic of covid-19 has bought our lives to a standstill and made us confine within our homes since the lockdown was being enforced in Bangalore and other states of India respectively. Thus, most of the activities including our occupation is being done through the means of smartphones and personal electronic devices which includes laptops, iPod, iPad etc. and the internet. This increased usage of has made a greater impact on the people in affecting their mental and physical health. This study aims to analyze how the people of the city Bangalore have been affected both mentally and physically due to the extended utilization of personal electronic devices during the pandemic and also provide ways to resolve this. A semi-structured questionnaire containing the basic details of the respondents, number of hours spent on personal electronic devices for work purpose and other purposes, number of physical and mental health effects suffered by each individual were being collected from the total number of fifty-four individuals out of which a sample of forty-seven people were being considered for this study.
Highlights
The convergence of communication and computing for mobile consumer devices is on the evolutionary course to bring interoperability and leverage the services and functions from each and every industry
3.1 Possession of Technological Gadgets To analyse the addictive use of the tech-devices it is necessary to consider the possession of them by the youth
The age ranges of the students vary from 15 to 25 years with an average age of 21 year
Summary
The convergence of communication and computing for mobile consumer devices is on the evolutionary course to bring interoperability and leverage the services and functions from each and every industry. In this process of convergence the Smartphone‘s are the leading devices taking the front end and playing the role of universal mobile terminal. The Smartphone‘s were only perceived for business use due to their cost and application, but not today, today we are in a frenetic Smartphone society populated with the Smartphone‘s from many vendors providing a range of advanced functionalities and services on a piece of hardware [3]. A study in Singapore by Ong et al.; focuses on the typing force and thumb motion during texting on a cell phone. The results of the research indicated that the incidence of peak force was linked to high angular displacement in flexion of the IP joint (end joint of the fingers) and in thumb opposition of the metatarsophalangeal joints (MCP) joint [5]
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