Today's Mobile Phones Research Articles

WorldPoint: Finger Pointing as a Rapid and Natural Trigger for In-the-Wild Mobile Interactions

Pointing with one's finger is a natural and rapid way to denote an area or object of interest. It is routinely used in human-human interaction to increase both the speed and accuracy of communication, but it is rarely utilized in human-computer interactions. In this work, we use the recent inclusion of wide-angle, rear-facing smartphone cameras, along with hardware-accelerated machine learning, to enable real-time, infrastructure-free, finger-pointing interactions on today's mobile phones. We envision users raising their hands to point in front of their phones as a "wake gesture". This can then be coupled with a voice command to trigger advanced functionality. For example, while composing an email, a user can point at a document on a table and say "attach". Our interaction technique requires no navigation away from the current app and is both faster and more privacy-preserving than the current method of taking a photo.

Research on the Monopolistic Characteristics and Countermeasures of China's Mobile Phone Market

With economic development and technological innovation, mobile phones have gradually become necessary for people's lives. Today's mobile phones have both standard communi-cation and powerful entertainment functions. This study uses the methodology of Litera-ture research and Comparative analysis to infer the competitive structure of the Chinese mobile phone market through secondary data collected and to provide corresponding com-petitive strategies for each manufacturer to cope with the complex social environment, which is of great significance to the development of the Chinese mobile phone market. The study found that: the competitive structure of China's mobile phone market is in a state of monopolistic competition, with high product differentiation and relatively easy exit and entry for manufacturers. With high manufacturing costs, finding a competitive strategy that works for the company to survive better in the competition is vital. Moreo-ver, among these many strategies, technological innovation is the most effective way for every manufacturer to drive.

A Study on the Acceptance of E-Wallet Apps Usage Amidst Mobile Phone Users in Klang Valley

Despite the growing usage of smartphone, not many Malaysians are able to park money in e-wallet accounts and E-wallet is only being reliant on cashbacks and subsidies for the users to use the apps. The objective of this research is therefore to determine the intention of mobile phone users towards the e-wallet system from the point of the current mobile phone users in Malaysia, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (U-TAUT). As to explore the relationship between the variables, the study employed Pearson correlations, reliability tests, and descriptive analysis. The finding revealed that perceived of trust leads to a very strong and positive significant relationship towards behavioural intention to use e-wallet among mobile phone users. The researchers recommended that the results would serve as a guide for developers of mobile e-wallets to invent a good performance, easy to use, and safe e-wallet service for the user at a fair price, in other words, that meets the needs and expectations of today's mobile phone users in Klang Valley.

HUGE MIMO TECHNOLOGY ROLE RECOGNITION FOR ITS EFFECTIVE 5G AND SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION

Wireless networking provides major problems due to the large number of users (QoS). This level of demand is supposed to be satisfied by 5G technology. And with respect to satellite communication, there is also a broad data requirement. Because of the LOS requirements, as well as an increased number of cells, today's mobile phone technology can no longer meet this bandwidth an obvious solution to this problem would be using milli-metric wave communication (MIMO). It is important to use multiple antennas (MIMO) and space multiplex when using the MIM approach to improve the spectrum efficiency and data reliability. With MIM support beam-forming and channel information, the device is able to boost energy efficiency. Similar ideas can be applied to other technologies such as satellite communication. These researchers have successfully completed the tasks related to MIM, and have now proposed a prototype for the assessment.

Problematic Use of Mobile Phones in Australia…Is It Getting Worse?

Rapid technological innovations over the past few years have led to dramatic changes in today's mobile phone technology. While such changes can improve the quality of life of its users, problematic mobile phone use can result in its users experiencing a range of negative outcomes such as anxiety or, in some cases, engagement in unsafe behaviors with serious health and safety implications such as mobile phone distracted driving. The aims of the present study are two-fold. First, this study investigated the current problem mobile phone use in Australia and its potential implications for road safety. Second, based on the changing nature and pervasiveness of mobile phones in Australian society, this study compared data from 2005 with data collected in 2018 to identify trends in problem mobile phone use in Australia. As predicted, the results demonstrated that problem mobile phone use in Australia increased from the first data collected in 2005. In addition, meaningful differences were found between gender and age groups in this study, with females and users in the 18–25 year-old age group showing higher mean Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS) scores. Additionally, problematic mobile phone use was linked with mobile phone use while driving. Specifically, participants who reported high levels of problem mobile phone use, also reported handheld and hands-free mobile phone use while driving.

<italic>VCX: An industry initiative to create an objective camera module evaluation for mobile devices </italic>

Due to the fast evolving technologies and the increasing importance of Social Media, the camera is one of the most important components of today's mobile phones. Nowadays, smartphones are taking over a big share of the compact camera market. A simple reason for this might be revealed by the famous quote: "The best camera is the one that's with you". But with the vast choice of devices and great promises of manufacturers, there is a demand to characterize image quality and performance in very simple terms in order to provide information that helps choosing the best-suited device. The current existing evaluation systems are either not entirely objective or are under development and haven't reached a useful level yet. Therefore the industry itself has gotten together and created a new objective quality evaluation system named Valued Camera eXperience (VCX). It is designed to reflect the user experience regarding the image quality and the performance of a camera in a mobile device. Members of the initiative so fare are: Apple, Huawei, Image Engineering, LG, Mediatec, Nomicam, Oppo, TCL, Vivo, and Vodafone.

Digital Circuits for Mobile Computing: Optimizing Power Performance and Innovation Opportunities

Today's mobile phone has millions of times more computing power than all of the NASA computers that put two astronauts on the moon. It is through the progress made by Moore's law and the ability of software engineers to take advantage of increased computing to create new applications that help our daily life be more efficient. There is enough computational power available that we are at the precipice of intelligent robots, autonomous vehicles, and machine learning for a smart home/environment/life.

NotiMind: Utilizing Responses to Smart Phone Notifications as Affective Sensors

Today's mobile phone users are faced with large numbers of notifications on social media, ranging from new followers on Twitter and emails to messages received from WhatsApp and Facebook. These digital alerts continuously disrupt activities through instant calls for attention. This paper examines closely the way everyday users interact with notifications and their impact on users' emotion. Fifty users were recruited to download our application NotiMind and use it over a five-week period. Users' phones collected thousands of social and system notifications along with affect data collected via self-reported PANAS tests three times a day. Results showed a noticeable correlation between positive affective measures and keyboard activities. When large numbers of Post and Remove notifications occur, a corresponding increase in negative affective measures is detected. Our predictive model has achieved a good accuracy level using three different classifiers "in the wild" (F-measure 74-78% within-subject model, 72-76% global model). Our findings show that it is possible to automatically predict when people are experiencing positive, neutral or negative affective states based on interactions with notifications. We also show how our findings open the door to a wide range of applications in relation to emotion awareness on social and mobile communication.

Android controlled autonomous robot car

A robot is a diverse electro-mechanical machine which is developed using electronic circuits, mechanics and programmed by computer. Number of robots with diverse features have been invented for manufacturing and industrial purpose and can be easily spotted in factories and industries around the world helping humans to make their work easier and more sophisticated. As we all know, now our world is revolving around mobile devices. Most of the people in today's world own mobile phones. So controlling a robot with mobile is the vision of this project. The project presented below is a miniature model of a Bluetooth controlled device which is based on the Android operating system as the software interface and an Arduino Atmega328 microcontroller as the hardware component. The project is implemented in the form of a Bluetooth controlled autonomous car. Car movement was controlled using an Android device which directed the movement of the car based on input given by pressing the buttons on the screen which directed the car to move accordingly in different directions.

A Case Study on the Awareness and Usage of Mobile Phone in Coimbatore District

Mobile phone services are becoming more and more significant throughout the world due to technological changes. In today's life mobile phone companies are offering new services to customers daily. Mobile phones have become necessity of life nowadays; Mobiles are technically advanced & have too many options like Hi-tech games, radio, and internet, downloading, etc. The study is based primarily on field data. The needed data were collected through structural interview schedule with administered to 100 respondents who are using cell phones. The respondents were selected from Coimbatore city using convenience sampling technique. The main reasons for preferring mobile phone was because ‘it is easy to carry’ and for the ‘better service’ and ‘call rates’. Extra facilities were not monitoring factors for the customers to own mobile phone. If a cell phone is user friendly, it is preferred by the customers. The customers of the current study stated that they did not experience any problem such as ‘Wrong calls’, ‘Unwanted SMS’, ‘Unwanted MMS’, ‘Virus formation’, ‘Coverage’ and ‘Volume adjustment’ while using mobile phones.

Android controlled autonomous robot car

A robot is a diverse electro-mechanical machine which is developed using electronic circuits, mechanics and programmed by computer. Number of robots with diverse features have been invented for manufacturing and industrial purpose and can be easily spotted in factories and industries around the world helping humans to make their work easier and more sophisticated. As we all know, now our world is revolving around mobile devices. Most of the people in today's world own mobile phones. So controlling a robot with mobile is the vision of this project. The project presented below is a miniature model of a Bluetooth controlled device which is based on the Android operating system as the software interface and an Arduino Atmega328 microcontroller as the hardware component. The project is implemented in the form of a Bluetooth controlled autonomous car. Car movement was controlled using an Android device which directed the movement of the car based on input given by pressing the buttons on the screen which directed the car to move accordingly in different directions.

Introduction to the New Version of PWS Application and It's Use in Medical Practice

Today's mobile phones and tablet PCs offer a considerably wider range of functionalities than before. Mobile applications (apps) are increasingly used for managing various daily health tasks. Currently, more than 165,000 health-related apps are offered on all the stores of different platforms. Pf Jin and the Association for Research on MPS and Rare Diseases (AMARD) have helped Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) families through medical information and family support since 2015. AMARD developed the first mobile application for Korean patients with PWS, which was released to a limited number of patients under the age of 3 and only provided to Android users. The first version of the PWS application focused on growth hormone therapy and the assessment of growth and development by parents in infant and early-childhood PWS patients. The 2016 version of the PWS application has been improved in many different ways. We have expanded the subjects of the application to late childhood and adolescent groups, changed the user interface accordingly, and made the application available for iOS users. We will show the specialized growth curves of older children with PWS. Therefore, patients with PWS over the age of 3 and their parents can assess the patients' growth. Additionally, we have upgraded the growth hormone therapy menu by improving the input system for the growth hormone therapy injection schedule and the daily growth profile (height and weight). We expect that the new version of the PWS application will help many PWS families cope with growth hormone therapy and evaluate the effects of growth hormones in better ways. Additionally, we are making a constant effort to provide more useful information about patients with PWS in many aspects.

Intention of adoption of mobile payment: An analysis in the light of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

The technological improvement coupled with the growing use of smartphones has, among other functions, facilitated purchase and payment transactions through the mobile phone. This phenomenon occurs worldwide and provides individuals more flexibility and convenience in carrying out their daily activities. This article aims to evaluate the intention of adopting a future mobile payment service from the perspective of current Brazilian consumers of mobile phones, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The survey was carried out with mobile customers of a telecommunications company that operates in southeastern Brazil, with a valid sample of 605 respondents. Using structural equation modeling, 76% of behavioral intention was explained through performance expectation, effort expectation, social influence and perceived risk. Perceived cost was found not statistically significant at the level of 5%. This result serves as a guide to participants in the payments market to develop a service for mobile payments of good performance, easy to use, secure and promotes the action of the social circle of the individual at a fair price, in other words, that meets needs and expectations of today's mobile phone users. As well as serves as a stimulus to the development of communication and marketing strategies that highlight these positive attributes and awaken the intention of adoption of the service by the wider range of people as possible.

The Optical Signature of Charges in Conjugated Polymers

Electrical charge flowing through organic semiconductors drives many of today’s mobile phone displays and television screens, suggesting an internally consistent model of charge-carrier properties in these materials to have manifested. In conjugated polymers, charges give rise to additional absorption of light at wavelengths longer than those absorbed by the electrically neutral species. These characteristic absorption bands are universally being related to the emergence of localized energy levels shifted into the forbidden gap of organic semiconductors due to local relaxation of the molecular geometry. However, the traditional view on these energy levels and their occupation is incompatible with expected changes in electron removal and addition energies upon charging molecules. Here, I demonstrate that local Coulomb repulsion, as captured by nonempirically optimized electronic-structure calculations, restores compatibility and suggests a different origin of the charge-induced optical transitions. These results challenge a widely accepted and long-established picture, but an improved understanding of charge carriers in molecular materials promises a more targeted development of organic and hybrid organic/inorganic (opto-)electronic devices.

Mobile Communication And Media Convergence A Case Study Of Satyabhama University

In today's world Mobile phones play a dominant role in social connectivity. In the past two decades mobile device market has grown enormously. According to TRAI, 10 April 2015 report, in India out of 100 citizens'77.58 were mobile phone users. When we compare with other countries India has second highest mobile phone users next to china. It is evident that people go crazy behind mobile phones. Emergence of mobile technology paved a new path to media convergence. We are yet to witness new device, application and technology incorporated in the device. Even though the device is meant for communication people always look for more option to play video games, to listen music, to watch films, to browse Internet and so on, we see this device as an entertainment medium. The expectation we have is more and the impact will be larger. Mobile phones feed all our desires consciously and unconsciously. In global level mobile device is considered as a great tool to market ideas and product. The young and energetic minds of India fell as a prey to this technology because they consider this as a reliable source of entertainment 24/7. The rapid growth of this device has changed our society and environment. In this study of the impact of mobile phones and its popularity among young users is done.

Development of mobile internet addiction and a discussion on the concept

Since the 1990s, studies on internet addiction and mobile phone addiction have been concerned. Of which, internet addiction refers to internet surfing via personal computers, and mobile phone addiction is usually set within the phone calls and sending short message. In recent years, the time and frequency people using mobile phones have been increasing rapidly with the popularity of smart phone and the development of mobile Internet. Some severe cases show an excessive use of mobile phone, even dependent or addictive symptoms. These results in a variety of physical, psychological and social problems of the individuals. However, today's mobile phone dependence or addiction is beyond the scope of calling and texting, but more on the use of the network function. So it needs to redefine this behavior addiction and its criteria by combining both internet addiction and cell phone addiction. It is named as mobile internet addiction. The definition would help to study the mechanism of the development of mobile internet addiction, and provide theoretical foundations for developing effective intervention strategies. Key words: Internet addiction; Mobile phone addiction; Mobile phone network addiction

Tactile Internet: 5G and the Cloud on steroids

With the data rates of mobile broadband soaring, cutting-edge scientists are starting to build the tactile Internet. 5G networks will not be juiced-up version of today's 4G mobile phone networks. To make next-generation mobile networks possible, operators will have to deploy completely new network technology, and use broader swathes of the radio spectrum. Nobody has quite figured out how exactly to make it work, which is mainly because there are neither standards agreed nor spectrum set aside. What's clear, though, is the ambition: superfast networks with data speeds of around 10Gbit/s, and a latency (or delay for establishing the connection and transmitting the signal) of some very few milliseconds (4G has a typical latency of about 50ms).

The Use of Mobile Phones in University Exams Cheating: Proposed Solution

Currently, instant communication is very possible all over the world due to a rapid growth in mobile phones technology. Each day, a number of mobile phones subscribers and cellular network coverage is escalating tremendously. Today's mobile phones are released with ability nearly to that of a desktop computer. The ubiquity nature of mobile phones and extended network coverage allows for constant connectivity, easy flow of information and accessibility. Students use mobile phones to store lecture materials, tutorials, communicate with colleagues and surf the internet for different purposes. These advantages would have adverse effects if mobile phones will be brought in restricted premises such as exam venues. Disobedient candidates use mobile phones to cheat in exams. In this paper, we propose a system prototype that will be used to detect mobile phones in the exam venues.

Development of Multimedia Application for Smartphones

security and verify the user's identity has become one of the biggest concerns of institutions and individuals; this interest emerged many types of authentication. Security field uses three different ways; in the oldest documentation of these methods depending on the specific information such as a password or name. The second type depends on something you have his key, such as a smart cards. The last of these species depends on the dynamic qualities for biometry, which measures the properties of natural or behavioral uniqueness in people to document or rooting their identification and verification including famous biometrics (e.g. fingerprint; retina; iris, as well as some facial characteristics and features), also includes personal behaviors (e.g. signature; voice, and walk). All of this biometrics has its advantages that are compatible with the requirements of the different security systems. The proposed implementation model has come as an idea, since today's mobile phones are computers in medium. They are used in running e-mails; agendas; storing data; markets; etc., providing some approaches of security model based on face recognition and/or fingerprint as biometrics approaches for authentication on mobile phones. A new level of mobile phone user's security approach is presented this has been tested with the database. The algorithms have been first profiled in MATLAB and then implemented on android based smart-phones. The balance between accuracy and computation complexity on the application is an important mission to achieve it. In this paper the face recognition security for mobile phones has been represented and applied for face by using principle Component Analysis (PCA) technique.

Smartphones Based Mobile Mapping Systems

Abstract. The past 20 years have witnessed an explosive growth in the demand for geo-spatial data. This demand has numerous sources and takes many forms; however, the net effect is an ever-increasing thirst for data that is more accurate, has higher density, is produced more rapidly, and is acquired less expensively. For mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects, this has been achieved through the major development of Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS). MMS integrate various navigation and remote sensing technologies which allow mapping from moving platforms (e.g. cars, airplanes, boats, etc.) to obtain the 3D coordinates of the points of interest. Such systems obtain accuracies that are suitable for all but the most demanding mapping and engineering applications. However, this accuracy doesn't come cheaply. As a consequence of the platform and navigation and mapping technologies used, even an "inexpensive" system costs well over 200 000 USD. Today's mobile phones are getting ever more sophisticated. Phone makers are determined to reduce the gap between computers and mobile phones. Smartphones, in addition to becoming status symbols, are increasingly being equipped with extended Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities, Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) inertial sensors, extremely powerful computing power and very high resolution cameras. Using all of these components, smartphones have the potential to replace the traditional land MMS and portable GPS/GIS equipment. This paper introduces an innovative application of smartphones as a very low cost portable MMS for mapping and GIS applications.