Mobile Phone Usage and Behavioral Science

Abstract

Nakamura [3-4] studied the function and the meaning of the action of looking at a mobile phone display. According to Goffman, spaces can be considered a common ground for communicating with nonverbal signals, the majority of which are silently exchanged [2]. In the mobile phone era, texting or operating a device in spaces plays something of a nonverbal role in the resolution of difficult situations [5]. Mobile phone usage in spaces should be discussed with reference to this public role, which has spread worldwide. Above all, it should be emphasized that this function of the mobile phone is not physically installed into the device. People generate this attitude and provide meaning to it through their infinite body actions. The accelerated adoption of this practice suggests the existence of a long-standing requirement among people.