Benefits Of Mobile Technology Research Articles

MALL‐based collaborative writing in second language classroom: A systematic review

AbstractDriven by the affordances and benefits of mobile technology, collaborative writing (CW) supported by mobile technologies has been increasingly implemented in the second language (L2) acquisition context. To shed light on the research foci and provide guidance for future research in this promising area, the present study conducted an in‐depth and systematic review of 25 empirical articles on CW supported by mobile technologies in the L2 context published from 2014 to 2022, including quantitative, qualitative, and mix‐methods research. A holistic analysis of these articles was conducted, covering various aspects such as research themes, research contexts and technology, theoretical/pedagogical frameworks, writing tasks, and instruments. Based on the analysis of the previous research, this study provided pedagogical suggestions concerning writing tasks, group division, participant training, and writing assessment and also explores future research directions.

“It’s kind of like an assault, you know”: media resisters’ meta-decoding practices of media culture

ABSTRACTStuart Hall’s “Encoding/decoding” essay sparked an on-going focus in media studies on reception and audience studies that remains theoretically robust today. Hall’s insight that audience members decode media content in multiple ways, some in line with the dominant cultural ideology and some resistant to that ideology, illuminates the phenomenon of media resistance. Media resisters significantly limit their media consumption and they do so based on their decodings of media culture—decodings, or readings, that resist normative messages about commercialism and consumption, about the natural diffusion and inherent benefits of mobile technologies and social media, and about the political landscape depicted and generated by news media. Hall’s encoding/decoding model is expanded here to include not only audiences’ decodings of specific content, but of media culture broadly. Concerns about media culture in the aggregate lead to media resisters’ practices of limiting media engagement, practices themselves that are counter hegemonic.

Leveraging the Benefits of Mobile Technology to Improve the Efficacy of the Consent-To-Treatment Process

Leveraging the Benefits of Mobile Technology to Improve the Efficacy of the Consent-To-Treatment Process

The Mobile Agility Framework: An Exploratory Study of Mobile Technology Enhancing Organizational Agility

Organizational agility is a key factor for survival and success in today's global, interconnected and turbulent business environment. Mobile technology, due to its anywhere, anytime characteristics, can be a promising tool for enhancing organizational agility. Yet there are no studies that guide organizations in leveraging mobile technology for improving speed and responsiveness to market needs. This paper attempts to fill this gap by exploring the question of how mobile technology can be used to enhance organizational agility. We use an exploratory research approach that analyzes archival data of 89 case studies describing contemporary applications of mobile technology within organizations. After developing a mobile agility framework and using it as our analytical lens, we examine each case to identify specific ways in which mobile technology is used to improve operational, customer, and partnering agility. The main contribution of this study is identification of emergent clusters of agility-enhancing mechanisms based on the benefits of mobile technology. The discovered benefits and mechanisms can guide organizations on improving their agility with the help of mobile technology. We also formulate research questions that should be addressed by future studies in order to produce a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of how mobile technology improves organizational agility.

Mobile technology and forgotten consumers: the young‐elderly

AbstractThe advancement in mobile technology and the increasing number of aging people have given rise to a need for better understanding on how mobile (smart) phones can be used to the advantage of the aging populations. The benefits of mobile technology and its merits to individuals have been phenomenal while young‐elderly (aged 60–75), an important segment of the society, are lagging behind in using mobile technology and specifically using mobile health and wellness applications. Through a systematic literature review, this study examines our current understanding of the adoption of mobile health and wellness applications by young‐elderly and highlights factors which may influence the adoption decision of this age group. The review shows that due to specific physical and functional challenges of this group, mere focus on traditional technology adoption and acceptance models provides necessary, but not sufficient insights into the dynamics of the mobile technology adoption. More specifically, the review results suggest that other relevant determinants such as sociological and psychological factors in addition to the aging‐specific characteristics provide the means to better understand the dynamics of mobile technology adoption by the young‐elderly. Based on the results obtained from the review of literature and other relevant studies, this study suggests a conceptual framework to be applied in the young‐elderly studies.

The New Scroll Digital Devices, Bible Study and Worship

Using survey and focus group methodology, this study examined what highly religious people think about mobile technology as an enhancement to the individual and corporate spiritual life. Results indicated that even church members over 60 years old embraced newer technologies both within their place of worship as well as at home. Sunday school and Bible study teachers were more comfortable and enthusiastic about the uses of mobile technology for spiritual growth than nonteachers. Participants in the focus group not only understood the benefit of mobile technology but also acknowledged the distraction that often occurred. Regardless of their enthusiasm toward mobile technology, respondents also were adamant that the scripture had special meaning whether viewed electronically or within the well-worn pages of the family Bible.

A Research about Mobile Learning Perspectives of University Students who have Accounting Lessons

The aim of this paper is to determine the mobile learning perspectives of university students who have accounting lessons and to detect the differences of these perspectives and benefit of mobile technology on accounting lessons. Data is collected by face to face meeting of 4th class students who have had 2 or more accounting lessons at some programs in Akdeniz University. Convenience sampling method of non-random sampling methods is used. Frequencies of demographic questions and means and standard deviations for statements are performed. Mann Whiney U tests and Kruskal Wallis tests are performed whether there are significant differences in students’ perspectives on mobile learning. Students haven’t used mobile devices effectively for accounting lessons yet, but they are interested in using mobile devices in the case of technological support. They think that areliable service and an easy content to navigate are important for mobile learning to be effective.

Awareness of Nigerian Students and Teachers about Potential Use of Cell Phone as a Teaching Aid

Aims: This study investigated the awareness of Nigerian students and those of Nigerian teachers about potential use of cell phone as a teaching aid. Study Design: A survey research design. Place of study: Kogi State College of Education (KSCOE), Ankpa, a state owned higher institution of learning located in the eastern senatorial district of Kogi state, Nigeria. Methodology: A total of 100 respondents made up of 50 students and 50 teachers from the state College constituted the sample for the study. Four research questions were developed. Two sets of questionnaire constructed by the researcher were administered to the two groups, the students and teachers. Twelve (12) possible areas that cell phone could be of educational relevance were identified on the instrument for the respondents’ responses. Results and Discussion: Two major results were obtained. One, the students and teachers of KSCOE, Ankpa, have the awareness of the potential use of cell phone as a teaching aid. Two, the awareness notwithstanding, these students and teachers don’t use cell phone to aid teaching and learning. This attitude is not far from inadequate training about the benefits of mobile technology on the part of both the students and teachers as well as readiness of most administrators of Nigerian schools to run technology education. Recommendations: Teachers are to be given more training about the benefits of mobile technology, when and how they can be used through frequent seminars and conferences in order to become more confident in its use before they can convince their students to do

Psychiatry Joins the Digital Revolution

Psychiatry Joins the Digital Revolution

The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa

BackgroundTo investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect data using mobile phones in a large baseline surveyMethodsA web-based system was developed to allow electronic surveys or questionnaires to be designed on a word processor, sent to, and conducted on standard entry level mobile phones.ResultsThe web-based interface permitted comprehensive daily real-time supervision of CHW performance, with no data loss. The system permitted the early detection of data fabrication in combination with real-time quality control and data collector supervision.ConclusionsThe benefits of mobile technology, combined with the improvement that mobile phones offer over PDA's in terms of data loss and uploading difficulties, make mobile phones a feasible method of data collection that needs to be further explored.

A Pattern Approach to Mobile Interaction DesignDie Verwendung von Patterns beim Entwerfen mobiler Applikationen

Abstract There are many limitations and benefits of mobile technology and the specific situation of mobile users adds complexity through additional parameters that designers need to address. This makes designing user interfaces and user interaction for mobile applications a very complex task. To address this complexity we propose an interaction design approach using patterns for mobile interaction design. We present an iterative user centered development process which integrates the usage of an interaction pattern library within the interaction design process. By using the pattern approach, not only functional and interaction requirements but also architectural issues are considered. In addition we present tools for designers that enable them to use the pattern library according to the categorization of functionality and interaction representing the dimensions of a design task especially in mobile environments. The proposed method guides developers in their task to design interaction that matches the project´s requirements.