Use Of Mobile Smartphones Research Articles

Mobile Smartphones as Tools for ICT Integration in Geography Teaching

This article seeks to reflect on the opportunities that mobile smartphones (MSPs) present as ICT integration tools in teaching geography. The more extensive study, underpinned by the Professional Development Framework for Digital Learning (PDFDL) in ICT integration, employed a qualitative research approach. Lensed by the Professional Development Framework for Digital Learning (PDFDL), the article used the qualitative approach to garner insights from the participants regarding using MSPs as tools to integrate ICT in geography teaching. Data collection tools included interviews, observations, and document reviews. Researchers sampled (n = 4) schools, interviewed and observed (n = 13) teachers, and interviewed (n = 10) learners and (n = 8) parents in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, they used a purposive sampling technique to access the participants, basing the research on the premise that MSPs promote virtual reality for an array of learners. As the findings revealed, although some participants viewed the use of MSPs as a distractor in the learning space, teachers felt compelled to heed the call to modify their teaching pedagogies, such that they integrated mobile phones fruitfully in their teaching. The findings further revealed that such a paradigm shift would benefit homeschooling and facilitate a dual teaching mode at learning institutions. Curriculum planners are responsible for helping teachers accept that uncertainty is the only certainty about the future, considering the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and augmentation (VUCA) challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Extended lockdown periods accelerated the use of MSPs in teaching, requiring every stakeholder in the educational space to become a life-long learner by using a range of technologies and platforms.

Design and Build Game Koran Yuk Based on Android (Case Study of Darut Taqwa Islamic Boarding School)

Darut Taqwa Islamic Boarding School is often used as a place to study the Qur'an for teenagers and children. The teaching system, which is still very traditional, looks very out of date, so I took the initiative to make the NGAJI YUK Game, and there is also a tendency to see students playing games on cellphones that have no benefit. Aside from being a communication tool, this research aims to develop the attractiveness and interest of children to make better use of mobile smartphones for positive things. An educational game application that can help children learn to recognize the basics of Arabic letters and reading.

Demand Forecasting for Rural E-Commerce Logistics: A Gray Prediction Model Based on Weakening Buffer Operator

With the advancement of Internet technology and the widespread use of mobile smartphones, urban e-commerce is becoming increasingly saturated. Rural e-commerce ushered in a new era of development. How to improve rural logistics carrying capacity to keep up with the development of rural e-commerce and better serve the development of rural e-commerce has become a hot topic. The purpose of this study is to predict logistics demand in the context of the development of rural e-commerce. We develop an indicator system for forecasting rural logistics demand in Guangdong Province. The GM (1,1) gray forecasting model with a weakening buffer operator was used to forecast rural logistics demand in Guangdong Province. According to the results, the prediction model has good matching and precision. It was also found that demand for rural logistics in Guangdong Province will generally rise in the short to medium term. Based on the findings of this study, the government should stimulate demand for rural consumer goods, encourage technological innovation, develop an Internet-rural logistics mode, and meet the supply requirements of rural logistics based on the situation of each region.

Mobile Smartphone in Foreign Language Teaching: Apps for Teaching Students’ Vocabulary

This study focuses on determining whether or not students at MTs As'adiyah Putra 1 Sengkang's first year can expand their vocabulary through the use of mobile smartphones. The pre-experimental design was used by the researcher. First-year students at MTs As'adiyah Putra 1 Sengkang during the academic year 2020–2021 made up the population of this study. The class of 34 students served as the sample for the purposive sampling technique. The pretest and posttest were used to collect the data. The results of the student's test scores were determined by utilizing SPSS 24 to evaluate the test's data. According to the researcher's findings, the pre-test mean score was bad (49.00), but the post-test mean score was extremely high (79.24), with a standard deviation of 15.47 and 10.95, respectively. Therefore, the researcher came to the conclusion that employing a mobile smartphone was efficient for increasing vocabulary in first-year MTs Putra 1 As'adiyah Sengkang.

Smart Phones and Examination Malpractice in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions

Examination malpractice has become a social plague in Nigeria educational system. The mad rush for acquisition and over dependence on paper qualification without recourse to corresponding knowledge in skills and competence by an average Nigerians has aggravated students in different tiers of Nigeria educational system to device various means to compromise examination; which serves as a yardstick for teachers to ascertain the level of knowledge acquisition and retention by the students. This paper examined the advert of smart phones and examination malpractice in Nigeria, especially in tertiary institutions. Relevant journals and conference papers were consulted and are sources of secondary data used in the paper. It is discovered that the advert of smart phones and its availability to most tertiary institution students has led to the gaining of ground of electronic device cheating as a form of examination malpractice in Nigerian tertiary Institutions nowadays. The study also sees compromised security agents and poor invigilation on the part of lecturers who are mostly used as invigilators in semester examination in tertiary institutions as factor responsible for prevalence of electronic device cheating. This paper suggested that ban on the use of mobile smart phones in examination halls be enforced to curb the new wave of electronic cheating, full implementation of examination malpractice Act 33 of 1999 and a general change in societal crazy rush for acquisition and over dependence on academic paper certificate, as measures to curb examination malpractice in Tertiary institutions.

MYOPIA IN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES

The eye is the most important human sensation and it can captures almost 90% of informations from the surrounding area. The mechanism of the photo-camera's operation, for example, is made on the basis of the function of the eye, in that mode the reflected light of subjects is reflecting on the cornea, passes through the pupil, adjusts and then falls on the retina of the eye, so that is, it forms the image for the object. Myopia or short-sightedness is a refractive anomaly in which the rays of light break in front of the retina, causing short-sighted people to close their eyes, trying to get a sharp picture of the distant objects that they see blurry, and see them relatively well in the vicinity. As a cosmopolitan problem and according to the aetiological factors, myopia can occur at all ages and in both sexes, but more often in female. The total number of myopia patients is in continuously increasing over the last decade, as a result of intense and unmanaged use of mobile smart phones and computers. This is a descriptive epidemiological survey, with statistical processing and data analysis for several months in 2017, where 890 children aged 2.5 to 6 years were actively involved in the kindergartens in Shtip, Republic of Macedonia. Of these, 428 (48.09%) were male, and 462 (51.91%) were female. The screening was performed during the stay of children in kindergartens, using a 2WIN mobile binocular refractometer for detection of refractive errors, visual anomalies and measurement of the pupillary parameters. According to the results of our pilot-study, as well as the anamnestic data from the parents of children and kindergarten educators on the manner, about the duration and purpose of the use of mobile smart phones (screen size, mismatched picture light, viewing longer than 30 minutes/day due to obedience in nutrition, mutual competition, etc.), in 485 of the respondents or 54.78%, the results were closest/within the normal range. Deviations from the reference values were observed in 405 children, ie 45.23% of children, who were manifested as refractory disorders, or 280 with suspicion of development of strabismus, then 119 with initial myopia, and the others with visual astigmatism during the examination. Screening contributed to early detection, diagnosis and timely good treatment of uncorrected refractory anomalies, as well as determining the need and benefit of introducing a regular preschool screening program for visual disturbances. In view of the rapid development of technology and the possibilities it offers through mobile applications, in response to child's curiosity for the world, it was concluded that in the onset of myopia in pre-school children, there is also a very small amount of time spent on daily ultraviolet light in nature. The moderate and controlled use of mobile smart phones (just a few minutes in the day for children over five years) and well menaged the adaptation of smart phones’ tools to the child's vision, contribute to the preservation and promotion of the overall health of children.

Need Analysis of the Mobile Application Development Related to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamicjerusalem (Baitul Maqdis) as a M-Learning Medium

The public's tendency towards Palestinian related issues shows that communities, especially the Malaysians’, are keen to seek information on Palestine, particularly concerning al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic jerusalem (Baitul Maqdis). However, the number of mediums of information through mobile smartphones that provide scientific information about al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic jerusalem (Baitul Maqdis) is minimal. Furthermore, the existing apps using one language only; English, Arabic or Malay, make it difficult to obtain the information. The objective of this need analysis is to obtain information on the basic knowledge of the community of al-Aqsa and Baitul Maqdis mosques. An online questionnaire was distributed to implement this purpose, and respondents were selected by convenience sampling. A total of 601 respondents responded to the questionnaire. The study found that out of five (5) parts of the question submitted, 70% of the respondents were unable to answer correctly or chose the answer “did not know” for the questions. Therefore, this study concludes that it is necessary to develop a scientific learning medium which contains the main information relating to the al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic jerusalem (Baitul Maqdis). As the acceptance and use of mobile smartphones as a major medium of information in the community, the development of mobile smartphone applications about the al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic jerusalem (Baitul Maqdis) is essential. Its existence can fill up the loophole of the alternative medium of m-learning related to the Masjid al-Aqsa and Baitul Maqdis in the society.

Total recall in the SCAMP cohort: Validation of self-reported mobile phone use in the smartphone era

Mobile phone use, predominantly smartphones, is almost ubiquitous amongst both adults and children. However adults and children have different usage patterns. A major challenge with research on mobile phone use is the reliability of self-reported phone activity for accurate exposure assessment. We investigated the agreement between self-reported mobile phone use data and objective mobile operator traffic data in a subset of adolescents aged 11–12 years participating in the Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones (SCAMP) cohort. We examined self-reported mobile phone use, including call frequency, cumulative call time duration and text messages sent among adolescents from SCAMP and matched these data with records provided by mobile network operators (n = 350). The extent of agreement between self-reported mobile phone use and mobile operator traffic data use was evaluated using Cohen's weighted Kappa (ĸ) statistics. Sensitivity and specificity of self-reported low (< 1 call/day, ≤ 5min of call/day or ≤ 5 text messages sent/day) and high (≥ 11 calls/day, > 30min of call/day or ≥ 11 text messages sent /day) use were estimated.Agreement between self-reported mobile phone use and mobile operator traffic data was highest for the duration spent talking on mobile phones per day on weekdays (38.9%) and weekends (29.4%) compared to frequency of calls and number of text messages sent. Adolescents overestimated their mobile phone use during weekends compared to weekdays. Analysis of agreement showed little difference overall between the sexes and socio-economic groups. Weighted kappa between self-reported and mobile operator traffic data for call frequency during weekdays was κ = 0.12, 95% CI 0.06–0.18. Of the three modes of mobile phone use measured in the questionnaire, call frequency was the most sensitive for low mobile phone users on weekdays and weekends (77.1, 95% CI: 69.3—83.7 and 72.0, 95% CI: 65.0–78.4, respectively). Specificity was moderate to high for high users with the highest for call frequency during weekdays (98.4, 95% CI: 96.4–99.5).Despite differential agreement between adolescents’ self-reported mobile phone use and mobile operator traffic data, our findings demonstrate that self-reported usage adequately distinguishes between high and low use. The greater use of mobile smartphones over Wi-Fi networks by adolescents, as opposed to mobile phone networks, means operator data are not the gold standard for exposure assessment in this age group. This has important implications for epidemiologic research on the health effects of mobile phone use in adolescents.

Using the Living Lab Approach to Develop and Adapt a Context-Aware ICT4D Solution

The rising use of mobile smartphones by people in rural areas of the developing world has resulted in increased deployment of information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) solutions targeted at empowering rural communities to overcome various socio-economic challenges. However, shortfalls in infrastructure, community buy-in, training, and management of ICT interventions are widely cited as impeding user acceptance and sustainability of potentially useful rural ICT4D interventions. This article outlines a deployment of the living lab approach to develop and adapt a mobile, web-based, e-procurement solution for small-scale retailers in Kgautswane, a remote rural area in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. The living lab approach is an open-innovation methodology for development of context-based sustainable ICT4D solutions.

Recognizing composite daily activities from crowd-labelled social media data

Human activity recognition is a core component of context-aware, ubiquitous computing systems. Traditionally, this task is accomplished by analysing signals of wearable motion sensors. While successful for low-level activities (e.g. walking or standing), high-level activities (e.g. watching movies or attending lectures) are difficult to distinguish from motion data alone. Furthermore, instrumentation of complex body sensor network at population scale is impractical. In this work, we take an alternative approach of leveraging rich, dynamic, and crowd-generated self-report data from social media platforms as the basis for in-situ activity recognition. By treating the user as the “sensor”, we make use of implicit signals emitted from natural use of mobile smartphones, in the form of textual content, semantic location, and time. Tackling both the task of recognizing a main activity (multi-class classification) and recognizing all applicable activity categories (multi-label tagging) from one instance, we are able to obtain mean accuracies of more than 75%. We conduct a thorough analysis and interpret of our model to illustrate a promising first step towards comprehensive, high-level activity recognition using instrumentation-free, crowdsourced, social media data.

“There's an App for That” Mediating mobile moms and connected careerists through smartphones and networked individualism

The ubiquitous use of mobile smartphones and Internet-based applications commonly known as “apps,” can be viewed as simultaneously empowering and constraining for women's experiences and identities due to their potential to foster “always on” forms of sociability in both public and private spheres. We conduct in-depth interviews with women who daily use smartphone apps to understand how they use and make meaning through social media and popular apps to do with parenting (using the “Total Baby” app), fitness (“Runmeter”), finances (“Mint”) and daily tasks (“Evernote”) through Judy Wajcman's technofeminist approach, which suggests that people and artifacts co-evolve, and technology can facilitate and restrain gender power relations.

Time Constraints in New Mobile Communication: Practices among Senior Managers

AbstractBased on extensive studies on the new working conditions for senior managers in a leading telecommunication company, and a previously unstudied form of mobile management practice by the use of mobile handheld smartphones (handling calls, data, emails, sms), this paper focuses on unexpected time-saving limitations and other constraints that result from the implementation and internalization of the mobile devices. Aspects of independence that were initially anticipated from the use of mobile smartphones are increasingly offset, not only by the well-known time pressure of swiftly filtering, replying and being online, but also by some less known and unexpected limiting and constraining factors of temporal freedom.