Digital Life Research Articles

Achieving digital minimalism in student life: A roadmap for balanced digital life and well-being

Achieving digital minimalism in student life: A roadmap for balanced digital life and well-being

Adaptivity as a key feature of mobile maps in the digital era

Mobile maps are an important tool for mastering modern digital life. In this paper, we outline our perspective on the challenges and opportunities associated with designing adaptive mobile maps that are useful, usable, and accessible to a wide range of users in different contexts. If we claim for adaptive mobile maps to be successful, we need to expand our understanding of map use context, including the physical and digital spaces, user behavior, and individual differences. We identify key challenges, such as the scarcity of knowledge about mobile map use behavior, the need for effective adaptation methods and strategies, user acceptance of adaptive maps, and issues related to control, privacy, trust, and transparency. We finally suggest research opportunities, such as studying mobile map usage, employing AI-based adaptation methods, leveraging the power of visual communication through maps, and ensuring user acceptance through user control and privacy.

A colleague named Max: A critical inquiry into affects when an anthropomorphised AI (ro)bot enters the workplace

We offer a critical inquiry into the faltering entry of an anthropomorphised AI (ro)bot, an algorithm without physical or visual form, into the workplace in a media consultancy company. While living a digital life in the virtual world, the ro(bot) was given a human name. We highlight the unexpected consequences the humanisation of an early form of artificial intelligence (AI) has on the affects circulating between people and the new technology and between members of different organisational groups. We argue that anthropomorphising technologies such as AI influences the affective life of organisations and amplifies existing discontent between organisational members, complicating the introduction of the technology. Focusing on human–AI interaction, our analysis reveals a rift between managers who are excited and hopeful about the future capabilities of AI and employees who are frustrated and angry about its present shortcomings. We conclude that collective affects play a central role in contemporary technology-driven organisations in which the role people play in relation to the avalanche of AI technologies is often neglected.

Can We Make Our Students Pedagogical Design Partners?

In recent years, the Internet has become an integral part of our lives, which includes a wide variety of platforms and activities, different purposes, different uses, and different characteristics. Technology is present in all areas of life, but there are differences in the scope and type of activities young people do in their free time compared to the scope and type of activities during school hours. The purpose of this research is to make the young people's voices heard about their digital lives, to hear their suggestions for integrating technology in the school, and to make them partners in building curricula.The methodological approach in this research is a mixed method. 129 students aged 13-18 and 17 teachers who teach these students participated in the study. The research tools are two online questionnaires, one for students and one for teachers, both with closed and open questions. The findings reveal the students' leisure activities (digital and non-digital), the richness of their digital activities and their attitudes towards integrating technology into learning. In addition, the study presents what their teachers think about their student's leisure time activities and highlights the gap between them. Our findings are presenting the importance of hearing the students' voices for teachers and curriculum designers.

Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces

The distinction between public and private spheres has become increasingly blurred in the digital age. As more aspects of life move online, where information is potentially visible to anyone, traditional barriers dividing public and private realms dissolve. This creates a default condition of publicness for much online activity. In response, Internet users have developed novel ways of demarcating contexts as more public or more private through “gestures” (Vilém Flusser) that range from literal bodily movements to highly context-dependent and media-specific signs. This essay argues that in digital environments, the notions of “public” and “private” take on active, performative dimensions as verbs — “publicking” and “privating.” Users engage in ongoing yet subtle negotiations to establish “spaces of appearance” (Hannah Arendt) and signify communication as directed toward distinct audiences. The essay criticizes classic theories of the public sphere as inadequate for digital life. It proposes recasting the distinction as fluid and gestural rather than stable and institutional. Although overlooked as trivial, micro-gestures of publicking and privating enable users to perform publicness and privateness in a time in which the public has become an act rather than a place. Studying these fleeting yet meaningful gestures provides insight into how users resist the default publicness of contemporary digital life.

The impact of the oil price on mineable and non-mineable cryptocurrencies

ABSTRACT The digital world has become an inevitable part of daily life. With cryptocurrencies, a new investment opportunity has emerged around the globe. Extending digital life increases the energy demand. These new assets consume a considerable amount of energy resources. The mining process in particular can be significantly affected by energy prices. The purpose of this work is to reveal the impact of the oil price on mineable and non-mineable cryptocurrencies which would provide insight for policymakers, investors, miners, and portfolio managers. This research utilized a panel cointegration model and panel Granger causality tests to the daily data collected between May 11, 2021 and June 23, 2022. 15 mineable and 19 non-mineable cryptocurrencies were selected for the study. Other variables include the oil price, the VIX, and the gold price. The research indicated that there is a negative correlation between the oil price and cryptocurrencies. The VIX had a negative effect in the short term, whereas the gold price had a positive and significant correlation in the long term. The impact of the oil price on mineable cryptocurrencies was larger than that on non-mineable cryptocurrencies. This means that alternative energy resources are essential to reduce the dependency of cryptocurrencies on this type of fossil fuel.

The Effect of Physical Activity on Physical Fitness in Early Childhood

In the era of digital life, it provides convenience in various aspects of life. Children familiar with gadgets tend to prefer playing with them or choosing to watch. This raises sedentary behaviour in children so that children do less physical activity and can trigger other diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, respiratory, psychological, etc. This research is a literature study that discusses the effects of physical activity on children's health. The primary literature consists of 15 national and international journals. The results showed that physical activity has a positive effect in terms of health and academics.

“I Am Very Sexy, Sexy, Sexy”

Abstract This article focuses on the story of one transfeminine (transgen, in local parlance) wedding singer, Shabu, identifying through interviews, observation, and song analysis the possibilities of self-expression for transgens as well as for cisgender women who attend these performances. How have they carved out agency for themselves amid Kashmir’s territorial conflict over its sovereignty? The article demonstrates how Kashmiri gendered futures are intimately tied to courageous and innovative performances in women’s spaces, even within pronounced systemic constraints. Shabu’s songs concern women’s agency, gender dynamics and roles, family relationships, and gender presentation both in and outside women’s familial household and community/kin networks. The songs both embody accepted tradition and open doors to innovation, protest, and political commentary. The digital life of these performances on YouTube has contributed to their dissemination and popularity. This article addresses questions arising from shifting contexts of transgens’ wedding-song performances and contributes to the body of analysis of digital folklore through decolonial feminist and queer folkloristic lenses.

Cyber-attacks and digital security: A review

In today’s cyber world, information or data has the highest importance. So, it needs to be protected every time. The way we keep our valuable belongings in the locker on the same line data should be kept in the locker but at the same time it should be accessible whenever it is needed. But many a times, people who are part of this cyber world are not technical people. Information about users is being exchanged due to a growth in online communication utilizing various electronic devices including mobile phones, tablets, and other convenient forthcoming technologies. These links can make it simple to access the information of other users, which confirms the necessity of establishing trust and security in our everyday digital lives. Information security is the practice of using the proper procedural and technical controls to secure information and information systems, such as networks, data centers, and apps. This research study tries to give an overview of information security in terms of several methods for protecting data from threats and assaults.

Career Counseling in the Metaverse and the Islamic Perspective: Can it Solve Career Problems for Future Youth?

The problems that teenagers experience are more complex with rapid changes in the current digital era. This is a main constraint as teenagers in this study undergo education and work not through expected interest. Also at the same time this could be useful as many teenagers interact with digital life. The purpose of studying this is to know how useful the counseling process could be. Is there also a possibility of implementing a counseling career in the current metaverse world as this is alleged to be the main digital mode in the future? Can a counseling career in the metaverse become a solution to resolve problems? How would this be according to religious (Islamic) views on this metaverse? This study uses literature with various source references. The results of this study were divided into two research questions, with each answer having several indicators to be used as a reference when dealing with adolescents in the future.
 Keywords: Career counseling, Metaverse, Islamic Perspektive and Future Youth

Detection of types cyber-bullying using fuzzy c-means clustering and xgboost ensemble algorithm

In this study a neural network model (XGB_CTD) that will prediction which type of bullying the users may expose to, through dataset gained by the cyberbullying scale applied to the young internet users is formulated. Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGboost) algorithm, one of the ensemble learning methods is used in this method. There while this model contains 13 input parameters taken from the scale, there exist one output parameter classified one of the 9 outputs. The reliability of the data set obtained through survey is confirmed by statistical methods. Data set has been fragmented with Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) which is one of fuzzy clustering algorithms. Hyper-parameters for the maximum efficiency of the model training have been defined as model, learning and boosting method. Independent variables in data set have been scaled through standard normalization. As a result, the model has yielded % 91,75 accuracy rate in prediction of the classification as 9 different cyberbullying types. The same data set has been trained by different machine learning algorithms. It is seen that the proposed model has reached the highest accuracy when compared to the conventional machine learning algorithms. This study aims at prediction cyberbullying through the proposed model including different questions without claim by the young users as they were bullied. Similarly, type of the cyberbullying will also be able to be estimated by the help of internet using habits of the young users. Therefore, it is thought that the young can be prevented from experiencing psychological pressure or digital life fear.

Retracted: Analysis of Digital Life Effect of Residents’ Trust Based on Multivariate Discrete Choice Model

Retracted: Analysis of Digital Life Effect of Residents’ Trust Based on Multivariate Discrete Choice Model

Reminiscence and Digital Storytelling to Improve the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Older Adults With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study Design and a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Increasing attention is being given to the growing concerns about social isolation, loneliness, and compromised emotional well-being experienced by young adults and older individuals affected by Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD). Studies suggest that reminiscence strategies combined with an intergenerational approach may yield significant social and mental health benefits for participants. Experts also recommended the production of a digital life story book as part of reminiscence. Reminiscence is typically implemented by trained professionals (eg, social workers and nurses); however, there has been growing interest in using trained volunteers owing to staffing shortages and the costs associated with reminiscence programs. The proposed study will develop and test how reminiscence offered by trained young adult volunteers using a digital storytelling platform may help older adults with ADRD to improve their social and emotional well-being. The proposed project will conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of the intervention. The older and young adult participants will be randomly assigned to the intervention (reminiscence based) or control groups and then be randomly matched within each group. Data will be collected at baseline before the intervention, in the middle of the intervention, at end of the intervention, and at 3 months after the intervention. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design will be used to take advantage of the strengths of both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative data from surveys will be entered into SPSS and analyzed using covariate-adjusted linear mixed models for repeated measures to compare the intervention and control groups over time on the major outcomes of participants. Conventional content analysis of qualitative interviews will be conducted using data analysis software. The project was modified to a telephone-based intervention owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection started in 2020 and ended in 2022. In total, 103 dyads were matched at the beginning of the intervention. Of the 103 dyads, 90 (87.4%) dyads completed the midtest survey and 64 (62.1%) dyads completed the whole intervention and the posttest survey. Although we are still cleaning and finalizing data analyses, the preliminary results from both quantitative and qualitative data showed promising results of this intergenerational reminiscence approach that benefits both the older adults who have cognitive impairments and the young adult participants. Intergenerational reminiscence provided by young adult college student offers promising benefits for both the younger and older generations. Future studies may consider scaling up this pilot into a trackable, replicable model that includes more participants with diverse background (eg, public vs private college students and older adults from other agencies) to test the effectiveness of this intervention for older adults with ADRD. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05984732; https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05984732. DERR1-10.2196/49752.

Notes on two contemporary myths: free internet and user activity on digital social networking sites

AbstractThe proposal presented here opens up the opportunity to discuss what attentive Barthesian eyes can tell us about this early twenty-first century. We discuss the following research question: If actors pay nothing to be on digital social networking sites, and if they are supposed to shape the digital environment, how do companies profit if such an assumed logic remains for them a subordinate place? The answer could not be more Barthesian. The culture of platforms, transformed into nature, mythifies digital life, pointing to the success of the capitalistDoxa: the internet is free and the users are the agents of the network, while in reality, platforms earn millions, and users are manipulated by dishonest product sales strategies and by the spread of fake news.

Building digital life systems for future biology and medicine

The rapid development of biological technology (BT) and information technology (IT) especially of genomics and artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing great potential for revolutionizing future medicine. We propose the concept and framework of Digital Life Systems or dLife as a new paradigm to unleash this potential. It includes the multi‐scale and multi‐granule measure and representation of life in the digital space, the mathematical and/or computational modeling of the biology behind physiological and pathological processes, and ultimately cyber twins of healthy or diseased human body in the virtual space that can be used to simulate complex biological processes and deduce effects of medical treatments. We advocate that dLife is the route toward future AI precision medicine and should be the new paradigm for future biological and medical research.

P-453 Randomized phase II study of digital life coaching during stem cell transplantation for myeloma

P-453 Randomized phase II study of digital life coaching during stem cell transplantation for myeloma

Living a ‘Digital Life’ and ready to cope with crises? Highlighting young adults' conceptions of crisis and emergency preparedness

AbstractIncreasing numbers of people are spending more and more time in digital landscapes, with many still unknown consequences for crisis and emergency management. This exploratory, in‐depth, qualitative interview study (N = 14) explores conceptions about local and individual crisis and emergency preparedness among a small group of young adults representing the most digitally savvy generation in Sweden. The results show that the respondents exhibit a complex and ambivalent attitude to crisis and emergency preparedness issues. Considering their digital habits and skills, the respondents emphasise their own responsibility, social ties, and expectations of help from the authorities and the local community when describing how they intend to face and manage a crisis in practice. This exploratory study contributes preliminary and tentative theoretical knowledge to a highly limited body of work specifically addressing citizens' crisis and emergency preparedness in a digitalized world.

Finger–coding intelligent human–machine interaction system based on all–fabric ionic capacitive pressure sensors

The comprehensive application of human–machine interaction (HMI) has promoted humanization in digital life. Wearable electronic devices and artificial intelligence are driving the development and transformation of HMI technology. Nevertheless, the fabrication of superior devices assisted by artificial intelligence for HMI remains challenging. We introduce an all–fabric ionic capacitive pressure sensor (AFICPS) using laser–induced graphene/fabric as the electrode and ion/fabric as the dielectric layer. The designed sensor exhibits high performance, including ultrahigh sensitivity (17.8 kPa−1@0–60 kPa, 73.3 kPa−1@60–100 kPa, and 33.8 kPa−1@100–150 kPa), wide detection range (0–150 kPa), ultrafast response and recovery times (11 and 8 ms, respectively), low detection limit (∼ 5 Pa), good mechanical stability (only 4.4 % performance loss after 5000 cycles), and excellent breathability and biocompatibility (mouse fibroblast cell survival exceeding 99 % after 48 h). All these factors contribute to the accurate detection of human physiological signals, particularly finger movements. Hence, we demonstrate a finger–coding intelligent HMI system that converts multiple gestures into 26 English letters and 10 Arabic numerals with a recognition accuracy above 98 % by using machine learning. This type of system may enhance information privacy and be of great significance in HMI and encrypted communication.

Web Application Vulnerabilities and Best Practices: A Comprehensive Analysis

Web applications are integral to our digital lives, but they are also prone to numerous security vulnerabilities that can lead to data breaches, unauthorized access, and other malicious activities. This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of common web application vulnerabilities and propose best practices for mitigating these risks. The study examines a wide range of vulnerabilities, including SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and insecure direct object references. By exploring real-world examples and conducting in-depth analysis, this research aims to raise awareness and provide practical recommendations for developers, security professionals, and organizations to enhance the security of their web applications.

The Affective Dynamics of Everyday Digital Life: Opening Computational Possibility.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-023-00202-4.