Mobile Based Communication Research Articles

Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication

The purpose of this paper is to address the pressing road safety issues that plague our country. Unfortunately, a high number of fatalities result from accidents on the road. To combat this problem, this paper proposes the implementation of a Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication protocol that will allow vehicles to communicate wirelessly with one another while on the road. This protocol will use Radio Frequency (RF) communication, which has a range of 100 to 300 meters depending on the module and antenna utilized. V2V communication is especially crucial in areas with no internet connectivity or Global System for Mobile (GSM)- based communication. It enables vehicles to communicate data such as accidents, vehicles ahead, vehicles coming from opposite lanes, and other warnings. The NRF module is utilized to establish wireless RF communication between vehicles. The NRF modules present in both vehicles communicate with one another and transmit messages over a wireless medium. This type of communication is much more reliable than internet or mobile-based communication. A Node MCU microcontroller integrates all the sensors present, controlling all the functions. This technology plays a vital role in preventing accidents on roads, which remains one of the most significant issues in our country, causing numerous fatalities. Connected vehicles on the roads provide smoother traffic, tackle congestion, and in case of any human error, the vehicle can communicate with other vehicles quickly and wirelessly, cautioning the other driver, thereby avoiding fatalities.

Automatic Cyberbullying Detection: a Mexican case in High School and Higher Education students

The social interaction among young students has been partially or totally transformed to mobile-based communication, specifically through the use of social networks. This new communication environment has allowed a more immediate, diverse and massive interaction, offering a faster and more effective situation when carrying out academic and recreational activities. However, this scenario has also promoted the phenomenon of social harassment known as bullying, exponentially increasing its scope and diversifying the types and forms of aggression. Machine learning and natural language processing techniques have been used to create models that detect bullying situations among students, using data corpus from mainly public social networks. However, generally, these data sources are not representative of the social networks commonly used by the students; generating classification models that do not consider the vocabulary used by this social group. This article describes the methodology used to create a representative data corpus of the interaction between Mexican high school and university students, and a comparative analysis on characteristics that influence the quality of the content of a corpus in this domain. In addition, the performance achieved by implementing various machine learning models to identify bullying situations is presented. The best result is reported for the Naive Bayesian classifier (F1-Score of 0.862), performing better than models based on deep learning such as Recurrent (F1-Score of 0.845) and Convolutional (F1-Score of 0.807) Neural Networks.

Problem-Based mHealth Literacy Scale (PB-mHLS): Development and Validation.

BackgroundMobile devices have greatly facilitated the use of digital health resources, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mobile health (mHealth) has become a common and important way to monitor and improve health conditions for people from different social classes. The ability to utilize mHealth affects its effectiveness; therefore, the widespread application of mHealth technologies calls for an instrument that can accurately measure health literacy in the era of mobile media.ObjectiveWe aimed to (1) identify the components of mHealth literacy for ordinary users and (2) develop a systematic scale for appropriately measuring individuals’ self-perceived mHealth literacy through a problem-based framework.MethodsWe conducted an exploratory study involving in-depth interviews and observations (15 participants) in January 2020 and used exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to identify the components of mHealth literacy and develop an item pool. In February 2020, we conducted a pilot survey with 148 participants to explore the factor structures of items identified during the exploratory study. Subsequently, 2 surveys were administrated using quota sampling. The first survey (conducted in Guangdong, China) collected 552 responses during March 2020; we assessed composite reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. The second survey (conducted in China nationwide) collected 433 responses during October 2021; we assessed criterion-related validity using structural equation modeling.ResultsWe identified 78 items during the exploratory study. The final scale—the Problem-Based mHealth Literacy Scale—consists of 33 items that reflect 8 domains of mHealth literacy. The first web-based survey suggested that mHealth literacy consists of 8 factors (ie, subscales), namely, mHealth desire, mobile phone operational skills, acquiring mHealth information, acquiring mHealth services, understanding of medical terms, mobile-based patient–doctor communication, evaluating mHealth information, and mHealth decision-making. These factors were found to be reliable (composite reliability >0.7), with good convergent validity (average variance extracted >0.5) and discriminant validity (square root of average variance extracted are greater than the correlation coefficients between factors). The findings also revealed that these 8 factors should be grouped under a second-order factor model (χ2/df=2.701; comparative fit index 0.921; root mean square error of approximation 0.056; target coefficient 0.831). The second survey revealed that mHealth use had a significant impact (β=0.43, P<.001) on mHealth literacy and that mHealth literacy had a significant impact (β=0.23, P<.001) on health prevention behavior.ConclusionsThis study revealed the distinctiveness of mHealth literacy by placing mHealth needs, the ability to understand medical terms, and the skills in patient–doctor interactions in the foreground. The Problem-Based mHealth Literacy Scale is a useful instrument for comprehensively measuring individuals’ mHealth literacy and extends the concept of health literacy to the context of mobile communication.

Individual Freedom Vis-à-Vis Integrity of the State: A Study with Reference to Apple iPhone

Advancement in telecommunication and networking, especially the mobile-based communication systems, has contributed enormously towards the integration of nations and societies in the form of a ‘global village’. While the technological advancements have made connectivity across the globe so much easier, they have also raised concerns of comprising our privacy and security in the process. The case illustrates the conflict between a technology giant (Apple) versus a superpower country (United States) on sensitive issues of terrorism and national security. The business firm in the case decides to put its commitment to customers ahead of the government’s demands of unlocking the phone of a terrorist in question. The conflicting stands of the two parties highlight the issues of privacy (of a customer—who happens to be a terrorist in this case) versus national security. The government was of the opinion that the security of the nation is paramount and must be given precedence over anything else. Apple viewed the demand from the government as a breach of security assurances given to its customers at the time of product sale. The case raises sensitive issues like responsibility of a business firm to various stakeholders, the obligations of a firm to the customers, the obligations of the democratic government to its citizens, the value systems of a company, the privacy concerns of the citizens and so on. The case raises pertinent questions as to which concern is most urgent and paramount or which one should get preference—privacy of individuals, promises made by the companies or security of the nation? It also makes us ponder regarding the issues we may confront in future—Will incidents like these be more frequent in future? Can we sacrifice freedom of the citizens in the name of security? Can a government sneak into anyone’s private life at will? Are citizens being over-cautious and finicky? Do companies need to join the fight against terrorism rather than worrying about their company policies, protocols or impact on profits? The case provides a context for raising diverse perspectives on these issues and helps facilitate deliberations in focused manner.

Comparing the effects of intraoperative information delivery via electronic patient tracking system and mobile phone on stress and coping ability among the family members of patients under coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Background and aims: Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is associated with high levels of stress for patients’ family members. Information delivery to family members is a strategy with potential positive effects on their stress. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of intraoperative information delivery via electronic patient tracking system (EPTS) and mobile-based communication (MBC) on stress and coping ability among the family members of patients under CABG surgery. Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 80 family members of patients under CABG surgery. Participants were randomly allocated to an EPTS and an MBC group. Intraoperative information delivery to family members in the EPTS and the MBC groups was performed using EPTS and hourly mobile phone contacts, respectively. Data were collected before and after the intervention using the Perceived Stress Scale and the Coping Response Inventory. The SPSS software (v. 22.0) was used for data analysis through the Fisher’s exact, Chi-square, independent-sample t, and paired-sample t tests. Results: There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of the pretest and the posttest mean scores of stress and coping ability (P&gt;0.05). The mean scores of stress and coping ability did not significantly change in the EPTS group (P&gt;0.05). Moreover, the mean score of coping ability did not significantly change in the MBC group (P=0.429), while the mean score of stress significantly decreased in this group (P=0.009). Conclusion: Intraoperative information delivery to family members through mobile phone contacts is effective in significantly reducing stress among the family members of patients under CABG. Healthcare providers can use the findings of the present study to provide quality care to patients’ family members.

Determinants of Continuance Intention to Use Mobile Wallet Services : Light Users vs Heavy Users

Mobile technologies and rapid popularity &amp; usage among the businesses and consumers have led to revolutionary changes in the way the goods and services are marketed and consumed. The impact of mobile based communication strategies among modern marketers are more commonly witnessed with the revolutionary growth of mobile applications and their usage. One of the significant developments of mobile technologies that prove to be beneficial to both businesses and customers is the introduction of mobile payment systems, otherwise known as mobile wallet applications. Despite many mobile wallet users in India, it is highly challenging for service providers to understand the motivations behind customers to be loyal because of divergent customer segments and their needs. Hence, this study aimed at identifying the factors that determine the mobile wallet users’ intentions to continue using a specific service provider and how this behaviour would be different across the customer groups based on their usage. This paper proposed a theoretical research framework and validated the same with empirical data with the help of multivariate data analysis techniques, including exploratory factor analysis, t-test, and MANOVA. Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, and satisfaction were found to be the significant factors influencing users' intention to continue using mobile wallet applications. Finally, the results revealed that light users and heavy users differed significantly in terms of their overall post-adoption behaviour on mobile wallet applications.

A mobile based communication solution for monitoring remote agricultural locations

In this paper a method for the effective transmission of data, from a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in a remote agricultural location with limited connectivity, is proposed; along with a meaningful visualisation of the data at the user end to help in decision making and control of the irrigation system. The paper encompasses three main segments which are data compression, checking for network availability, and user interface. First data compression is implemented to reduce the amount of transmitted data, due to limited connectivity in the area, which is translated in low data rate and high cost of sending the data. Four different techniques are compared: Huffman encoding, Lempel-Ziv-Welsh (LZW), differential encoding, and Run Length Encoding (RLE) to carry out data compression, where Huffman encoding showed the best results when combined with differential encoding. The second phase is the handling of poor network conditions in the agricultural plant by switching between two different communication modes: Mobile data and Short Message Service (SMS). Lastly, the user monitoring centre which is a mobile application that allows the user to monitor and control the agricultural plant remotely. It includes mapping and visualization of temperature and soil moisture data and a control system to control the irrigation system. The solution presents a low-cost alternative for start-up agricultural projects in third world countries, where network instability is an issue and off-the-shelf expensive solutions are not a viable option.

Revisiting the Role of Traditional, Electronic and Mobile-Based Communication Channels in the Pharmaceutical Industry of Lithuania

The study revisits communication channels currently used to access medical information and investigates perceptions of general practitioners (GPs) about traditional, electronic and mobile-based channels in the context of Lithuania. A total of 254 GPs were surveyed. The findings suggest that the pharmaceutical companies still rely on pharmaceutical sales representatives to disseminate the newest information about prescription drugs. The results indicate that the leading experts in the healthcare industry contribute most to GPs’ drug-prescribing intentions and conferences organised by local and international scientific societies are considered to be the most reliable channels. Further, local websites designed for GPs have the highest perceived value among electronic and mobile-based communication channels. Statistically significant differences among different GPs’ age groups are confirmed regarding channel preferences and their reliability: international scientific conferences and international health journals are more popular and are perceived as more reliable among younger GPs compared to more senior GPs. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.26.5.12510

Effectiveness of Online Marketing and Hedonism among University Students in Singapore

Online marketing, also known as internet marketing, includes using interactive, virtual spaces to promote and sell products and services. Indeed, new synchronous, internet-based and mobile based communication techniques had helped restructure significant financial industries including marketing. Being cost-effective, flexible and quick and enjoying a global reach that is unprecedented, internet marketing has brought incredible benefits to various companies. This efficient, fresh technique, however, also includes its particular disadvantages, such as absence of personal contact, safety and privacy, etc. that should be taken into consideration. The present study concentrates on the effectiveness of Online marketing on purchasing behavior and hedonism among the students who are undergoing university studies. It reveals the interconnection between the purchasing behavior and hedonism among the students who came from different demographic factors and it shows the frequency of purchasing online and factors that lead to hedonism.

Text Messaging in Oncology: A Review of the Landscape.

Text messaging via short messaging service (SMS) is a common route of communication in the United States and offers many advantages to improve health care delivery compared with other forms of mHealth. Text messaging is easy to use, is convenient, is more likely to be viewed than e-mail, and can be tailored to an individual recipient's needs. Despite evidence that patients with cancer desire more mobile-based communication, there are few examples of successful text messaging interventions in the literature. This narrative review examines the current landscape of SMS-based interventions across the continuum of cancer care, including addressing behavioral change, attendance to screening and follow-up appointments, adherence to treatment, and assessment of symptoms and quality of life. Finally, we explore some of the barriers to implementation of a successful text messaging intervention.

Using google location APIs to find an accurate criminal accident location

Globalization has brought about a change in social behavior of society. The open access to information from the development and utilization of Information and Communication Technology has brought about a very significant change in the culture and behavior of society. Current-ly, Smartphone as a mobile-based communication tool has many benefits for use by the community. Various features contained in it so that an application can be developed for use by the public as a media reporting the location of the crime. Thus, the security forces will be assisted to obtain accurate information about the position where the crime occurred. One of the unique features of mobile applications is location awareness. To get an accurate location is necessary. Using Google Location APIs to get more accurate location. Applications like this do not exist in Indonesia, so it can be developed to help the police quickly get to the location of the case.

Is mobile app a new political discussion platform? An empirical study of the effect of WeChat use on college students' political discussion and political efficacy.

In the last couple of years, the increasing application and popularization of mobile app have dramatically transformed people’s daily political lives through offering innovative mechanisms for interpersonal communication. While a majority of past studies on WeChat have mainly focused on its characteristics, only few documents have unearthed the potential effect of using such emerging social media on facilitating political discussion and increasing political efficacy. Given those, this study adopted uses and gratifications approach to explore the possible relationships between gratifications-sought, the intensity of WeChat usage on mobile phones, online political discussion, and political efficacy among college students in China. An empirical survey with 282 WeChat users reveals that WeChat as a relatively new outlet of political information, which fosters online political discussion with others about government and politics. Contrary to the expectation, the intensity of WeChat usages is not helped to strengthen or enhance individual’s level of internal or external political efficacy. Furthermore, hierarchical regression analyses demonstrate that information needs and recognition needs are positive predictors of internal political efficacy. Overall, these obtained findings may shed more up-to-date insights on the meaningful role of the mobile-based communication technology in promoting citizens’ democratic engagement in a developing country.

A Research Survey on Scheduling Techniques in lte-based Network and its State of Art

The growing interest over the mobile based communication has attracted the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technique which facilitates higher data transmission rates to its dynamic users. The LTE-based network involves with scheduling which governs the better communication at different traffic (large, small, medium) condition. The LTE caters up network demands and encounters some potential and unreported problems in presence of large traffic with uncertainty of its associated load. Thus, scheduling becomes most essential is must. This manuscript reviews the recent existing researches with their contribution along with significances and limitations. The paper also contributes in identify the state of art in research issues to identify the research gap towards scheduling techniques in LTE

Multi-Ontology Based Points of Interests (MO-POIS) and Parallel Fuzzy Clustering (PFC) Algorithm for Travel Sequence Recommendation with Mobile Communication on Big Social Media

Leveraging community-contributed information such as blogs, Global Positioning System, and images that are geographically tagged for suggestions on navigation with mobile based communication is becoming a research area. The travel recommender a system is based on Points Of Interests (POIs) of user’s emerge in many studies and enterprise applications. Most of the preceeding travel recommendation methodologies are capable of recommending a personalized travel by considering the POIs. The major objective of this paper is to design a new Multi-Ontology based Points of Interest (MO-POIs) travel recommendation system which considers the POIs of the user along with the individual semantic information. Initially stage, the personalized MO-POIs sequence is recommended, and the routes are ranked based on the individual depending on the package he uses. Both the user and route package similarities are evaluated using parallel fuzzy clustering algorithm in this research work. Map Reduce is used as a parallel computation model in this research which performs computation with the help of a couple of functions that are termed as map and reduce. The social users travel records are used to optimize the top ranked routes. Finally, the new MO-POIs recommendation system evaluation is finished with a billion of Flicker images, uploaded by thousands of users and also more than 24,000 travelogues that cover the estimated 850 and above travel POIs in nine renowned cities, and illustrates its efficiency. The results are measured using the performance metrics like average precision and weighted average precision. The evaluation concludes that the proposed algorithm is capable of performing well in recent works that uses travel logs.

QR code advertising: a cross-country comparison of Turkish and German consumers

Among various mobile–based communication technologies, QR codes have recently gained a great popularity in mobile advertising. These codes are used by marketers for advertising in various ways such as in print media, in outdoor advertising, or even on the product packages so that consumers could get relevant information at instance. In the current literature perceived usefulness, behavioural intention, previous experience, knowledge and environmental constraints have been identified as the factors that lead consumers to scan QR code ads. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors and their extent in influencing the QR code ad scanning behaviour of Turkish and German consumers. The results demonstrate that perceived usefulness and previous experience affect the scanning behaviour of both the groups, whereas knowledge about scanning and environmental constraints affects only the scanning behaviour of Turkish consumers. Contrary to our expectations, behavioural intention does not influence the behaviour of either Turkish or German consumers.

An Inventive and Innovative Alternate for Legacy Chain Pulling System through Internet of Things

&lt;p class="Normal1"&gt;Indian Railways made a move in replacing the chain pulling system with the new mobile based communication system where the loco pilot’s mobile phone number shall be shared with all the passengers through a message. Despite the efforts taken to remove the chains from the train, there is a great probability of misuse through the mobile phone number provided. We aim to build a more efficient and secure solution based on the Internet of Things, which is a buzz word in the market. Our proposed system provides an alarm fixed at specific locations in the compartments of a train. In case of emergency, the passenger has to press the alarms’ button, which captures the scene using a built-in digital camera. The system also alarms the Loco-Pilot, Travelling Ticket Examiner, as well as the compartment so as to provide immediate possible help through the fellow co-passengers. The pilot slows down the train to an optimum speed whilst the travelling ticket examiner checks and confirms the pilot whether he has to stop the train. The entire system can be controlled through an authenticated mobile application provided to the ticket examiner. The pictures captured by the camera and other crucial details are uploaded to a cloud-based real-time database. Thus, saving time and taxpayers’ money as well as helping the railways to perform analytics and come up with feasible solutions to the problems of the passengers. The system has the potential to deal with the most prevailing cargo theft like that of coal, by alerting the staff without having to stop the train, making the convicts’ escapes impossible. This also definitely avoids the improper pulling of chains and thereby not causing any hassle to the passengers as well as diminishes the economic loss to the government by reducing the time delay.&lt;/p&gt;

Influence of performance expectancy on commercial farmers’ intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda

Purpose This paper to examine the relationship between performance expectancy and behavioural intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach A descriptive field survey method was adopted. A total of 302 commercial farmers and agribusiness traders in Eastern Uganda participated in the study from whom data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation and regression analyses were used in the study. Findings The findings reveal a significant positive relationship between performance expectancy and behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural information access and dissemination. This implies that, commercial farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination and access will be influenced if they anticipate mobile-based communication technologies to offer greater performance in their daily transactions. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted in the context of resource constrained countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, however reflecting knowledge from other contexts. The study was conducted with a structured questionnaire being the main data collection tool, and this limited the study from collecting views outside the questions asked in the questionnaire. The variables studied could not be analysed for a long time, given that the study was cross-sectional in nature. Practical implications The study provides recommendations on how to further boost farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural information dissemination. Policy makers need to ensure that policies are put in place that encourage third party software developers and telecommunication companies to provide software products and solutions that are beneficial to the commercial farmers and can enable them complete their agricultural transactions in time. Social implications The study provides critical literature on the influence of performance expectancy on commercial farmers’ behavioural intentions to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information access and dissemination in resource constrained settings. Originality/value It is noted that farmers in Uganda are slowly progressing to newer mobile information and communication technology tools for market information access and dissemination; however, little is known as to why there is slow adoption of these mobile technologies for agricultural purposes; yet policy makers need to come up with proper strategies to encourage wide scale use of mobile technologies for agricultural market purposes.

Fashion Film and Genre Ecology

We analyse the challenges and changing character, production and consumption of the emerging genre fashion lm through a genre as ecology approach. This approach accounts for the complexity of various rhetorical practices used within the creative industries, such as fashion. We find that digital mediation compels genre innovation in networked cultures in the mediation of fashion. We examine three fashion films to ascertain how they function as cultural production within web- and mobile-based communication and networked articulations. These need to be understood as part of distributed, polyvocal and multimodally mediated digital branding and advertising strategies that have largely not been addressed as genre by media and communication studies. Genre ecology is proposed as an addition to typological and developmental models of (media) genre innovation.

Social network service use on mobile devices: An examination of gratifications, civic attitudes and civic engagement in China

As mobile social network services have been integrated in many people’s daily lives, this study investigated the relationships between gratifications-sought, social network service use on mobile devices, civic attitudes and civic engagement in Mainland China. Data were gathered in a survey of 760 university students. Results showed that gratifications for technological convenience (accessibility), information exchange (cognition needs), and social interaction (recognition needs) significantly predicted civic engagement. The results also demonstrated that civic attitudes and social network service use on mobile devices are positively related to civic engagement. These findings well demonstrated the important role of mobile-based communication in connecting citizens to civil society.

My whole world’s in my palm! The second-level divide of teenagers’ mobile use and skill

Mobile communication emerged as a dominant channel for networked teenagers. While some theorists celebrate possibilities for autonomy, others are concerned that the increased reliance on mobile-based communication leads to disparities in digital skill and status replication. We examined how mobile-mediated behavior among teens interacted with the characteristics of socio-demographics and mobile access to predict (1) levels of diverse use and skill and (2) consequences of skill/use differences ( n = 552). Findings revealed that skill/use disparities were manifested based on race, and such variations were associated with status of parents in interaction with mobile phone ownership. Instrumental use and content/creation-based skill had significant impacts on public involvement among teens. Our data have implications for understanding how social backgrounds incubate mobile-based disparities in light of enabling teens’ life chances.