Ubiquitous Use Of Technology Research Articles

Exploring the Landscape of Ubiquitous In-home Health Monitoring: A Comprehensive Survey

Ubiquitous in-home health monitoring systems have become popular in recent years due to the rise of digital health technologies and the growing demand for remote health monitoring. These systems enable individuals to increase their independence by allowing them to monitor their health from the home and by allowing more control over their well-being. In this study, we perform a comprehensive survey on this topic by reviewing a large number of literature in the area. We investigate these systems from various aspects, namely sensing technologies, communication technologies, intelligent and computing systems, and application areas. Specifically, we provide an overview of in-home health monitoring systems and identify their main components. We then present each component and discuss its role within in-home health monitoring systems. In addition, we provide an overview of the practical use of ubiquitous technologies in the home for health monitoring. Finally, we identify the main challenges and limitations based on the existing literature and provide eight recommendations for potential future research directions toward the development of in-home health monitoring systems. We conclude that despite extensive research on various components needed for the development of effective in-home health monitoring systems, the development of effective in-home health monitoring systems still requires further investigation.

Associations among parent technology use, locus of control, and child problem behaviors

AbstractObjectiveThe current study had two objectives: (a) describe demographic differences in parent technology use and (b) explore how parent technology use contributes to parent locus of control and how locus of control is associated with child problem behaviors.BackgroundThe ubiquitous use of technology is likely to influence parenting and, in turn, children's outcomes. This study was designed to test the pathway from parents' technology use to children's problem behaviors through their locus of control for parenting.MethodParticipants were 316 U.S. parents (36% fathers; Mage = 41.93 years), recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk, with at least one child aged 10 to 18 years. Structural equation models were estimated to test the hypothesized paths.Results and ConclusionFathers and lower income parents reported significantly less frequent online information gathering and parents of color reported significantly more frequent calling and texting and social networking than White parents. Parents' texting and calling was positively, and online information gathering negatively, linked to child problem behaviors through parental locus of control.ImplicationsUnderstanding how diverse parents are using technology for parenting, and which online tools are effective for supporting parents is essential to developing online resources to support families.

Biosensing and Actuation-Platforms Coupling Body Input-Output Modalities for Affective Technologies.

Research in the use of ubiquitous technologies, tracking systems and wearables within mental health domains is on the rise. In recent years, affective technologies have gained traction and garnered the interest of interdisciplinary fields as the research on such technologies matured. However, while the role of movement and bodily experience to affective experience is well-established, how to best address movement and engagement beyond measuring cues and signals in technology-driven interactions has been unclear. In a joint industry-academia effort, we aim to remodel how affective technologies can help address body and emotional self-awareness. We present an overview of biosignals that have become standard in low-cost physiological monitoring and show how these can be matched with methods and engagements used by interaction designers skilled in designing for bodily engagement and aesthetic experiences. Taking both strands of work together offers unprecedented design opportunities that inspire further research. Through first-person soma design, an approach that draws upon the designer’s felt experience and puts the sentient body at the forefront, we outline a comprehensive work for the creation of novel interactions in the form of couplings that combine biosensing and body feedback modalities of relevance to affective health. These couplings lie within the creation of design toolkits that have the potential to render rich embodied interactions to the designer/user. As a result we introduce the concept of “orchestration”. By orchestration, we refer to the design of the overall interaction: coupling sensors to actuation of relevance to the affective experience; initiating and closing the interaction; habituating; helping improve on the users’ body awareness and engagement with emotional experiences; soothing, calming, or energising, depending on the affective health condition and the intentions of the designer. Through the creation of a range of prototypes and couplings we elicited requirements on broader orchestration mechanisms. First-person soma design lets researchers look afresh at biosignals that, when experienced through the body, are called to reshape affective technologies with novel ways to interpret biodata, feel it, understand it and reflect upon our bodies.

GOFlow: Smartwatch app to deliver laboratory results in emergency departments – A feasibility study

PurposeInformation Technology (IT) plays a critical role in supporting emergency physicians’ (EPs) routines. Pagers, personal computers, and smartphones offer fast access to patient data, such as laboratory results. However, due to the inherent features of specimen processing and laboratory instruments, the turnaround time from test ordering to availability of results can be long. Lack of follow-up of abnormal results can lead to missed information that could impact patient care and safety. Despite the increasing use of ubiquitous technologies, a third of physicians remains devoid of reliable methods for ensuring that results have been received. In this feasibility study, we report the potential of using a smartwatch to deliver laboratory results to EPs at the point-of-care and to support efficiency in emergency care. Unlike mobile devices that are increasingly used by EPs, smartwatches are always accessible, even during hands-on procedures. MethodTwo EPs and four experts in human-computer interaction designed the smartwatch application following the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM). The application was then evaluated in a pediatric emergency department through semi-simulated scenarios by eleven EPs. The primary outcome was to measure both the app perceived usability and satisfaction scores by the aim of the System Usability Scale (SUS), and the perceived usefulness and intention of its use by the aim of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) scale. Secondary outcomes were to assess the application’s efficiency by measuring the delay between the reception of the notification and 1) the access to its details and 2) the visit to the patient. Finally, open questions about the positive and negative aspects of the prototype as well as potential improvements were asked and evaluated qualitatively. ResultsThe prototype obtained a score of 81.4 out of 100 (good) on the SUS and a score of 5.96 out of 7 on the UTAUT scale. EPs using the smartwatch visited patients within 30 seconds receiving the laboratory results. ConclusionsThis study demonstrates the capacity of smartwatches to speed up the point-of-care delivery of laboratory results in the ED.

Heutagogy and digital media networks

The combined trends of learner-centred teaching and ubiquitous technology use in the classroom have given instructors a unique opportunity to support students in developing lifelong learning skills. Heutagogy (or self-determined learning) provides a promising framework for capitalizing on these developing trends, drawing on established learner-centred education theories that strongly emphasize learner autonomy. The key principles of heutagogy – learner agency, self-efficacy and capability, reflection and metacognition, and non-linear learning – provide a foundation for designing and developing learning ecologies, the potential of which can be further maximized through the use of digital media. This article describes the theory of heutagogy and the learner-centred pedagogies on which the theory is founded, as well as providing an explanation of the pedagogy-andragogy-heutagogy (PAH) continuum and its use in developing student skills. It also explores the role of social media in supporting the development of those skills.

Connecting with consumers using ubiquitous technology: A new model to forecast consumer reaction

Firms increasingly use ubiquitous technology in marketing to interact with consumers, locate and identify them, push promotions, and gather detailed purchasing data. This increased connectivity through ubiquitous technology creates a new bond between consumers and firms. Although most consumers willingly accept this connection, some perceive it as unwanted proximity, qualify it as intrusive, and consequently refuse to engage with firms. This research is intended to support firms that are interested in implementing ubiquitous technology in their marketing activities. We propose a new consumer response model, confirm a good fit with the data, and its stability in the presence of socio-demographic moderators using structural equations and multi-group analyses. This model is a tool that accurately captures the optimal settings of ubiquitous technology use and enables firms to efficiently predict consumer reactions to this technology, handily design implementation, and provide an improved customer experience.

Auditory Global Positioning System and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A Safer Alternative to Bioptic Telescopes for Drivers Who Are Visually Impaired?

This work challenges the standard of the past 40 years, which required the use of a bioptic telescope by individuals with vision loss wanting to be licensed to drive in most states in the United States.Driving continues to be the key to independence for many individuals, particularly older drivers who live in an area where public transportation is limited or nonexistent. For the past 40 years, the most frequently option to allow drivers who are visually impaired to maintain driving privileges was to require them to use a bioptic telescope. Bioptic telescopes were felt to be necessary for wayfinding when driving. In addition, it was thought that a person could look through a bioptic telescope and still be aware of the driving environment around him/her. Human factor research has shown that the assertion that an individual can attend to two tasks simultaneously is not possible. Taking one's eyes off the road for as little as 2 seconds can lead to lane position breakdown. In 2018, wayfinding can now be more easily accomplished with the use of ubiquitous technologies like Global Positioning System systems on our telephones and in our cars. Driver distraction principles support safer alternatives to bioptic telescopes because these audio options allow the drivers to maintain their eyes and their attention on the road and the traffic around them. The switching of view within the bioptic spectacles is attentionally demanding, and the visual field restriction of such devices reduces overall situation awareness by narrowing the driver's attention.

Increasing tensions in the ubiquitous use of technology for medical education

The ubiquitous use of technology in medical education creates increasing tensions related to the benefits and disadvantages of the ease of access to content and the opportunity to monitor online behavior. We recommend a collaborative understanding by all stakeholders, from learners and educators to higher education institutions and professional regulatory authorities, to inform future practice and policy.

Open Educational Resources: A Literature Review

The open educational resources (OER) movement is an emerging trend in higher education contexts, primarily due to the ubiquitous use of technology and access to the internet. This literature review focuses on the concept of OER, its essential definitions, its potential benefits, its open nature, and various aspects of adoption. The research findings indicate that the OER movement has not expanded fully into educational sectors, and the level of faculty and student awareness is quite low. The research also reveals that the current status of OER adoption in educational sectors is minimal. Additionally, OER adoption has encountered several obstacles; potential users have difficulty finding the proper OER materials, and there are quality control issues with resources. However, students saved a significant amount of money when OER replaced traditional textbooks. Many critical issues related to OER adoption must be resolved, and others may arise as more faculty and students begin to use these resources.

The Assessment of Ethical Issues Within Ubiquitous Computing in Belgium

Ubiquitous computing is the future of technology as the list of ubiquitous compatible devices is growing. The ambient nature of this technology generates high usage in notably populated countries and popular cities such as Belgium. The present article assesses the ethical issues of ubiquitous technology in Belgium. The use of ubiquitous technologies here is prevalent and coinciding this is various ethical issues. One of the many ethical theories common here is cultural relativism. A major issue here is the mishandling of data leading to private data being utilised unethically. This is an occurring incident that has happened in Belgium recently and other accounts of issues within Europe and outside of Europe have been identified. New European Union laws have been implemented to help eliminate any further misconduct but large multi-national companies are not providing clarity on their use thus, leading to the misuse of data. Although, the data being provided to these companies is solely down to the decision of the user.

Exploring TPACK among pre‐service teachers in Australia and Israel

AbstractThe ubiquitous nature of technology in the world has not yet translated into the ubiquitous use of technology to transform learning and teaching. Teachers lack the confidence and competence to integrate technology across a broad range of tools within a range of contexts. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) has become a common framework to explore technology within teaching and teacher education. However, little research exists to explore the similarities and differences of TPACK between different teacher education programmes, within different countries or even different disciplines, especially in a secondary context. Using a self‐report online survey, this study sought to compare and contrast TPACK results from pre‐service teachers studying in secondary teacher education programmes in Australia and Israel. Findings suggest that TPACK is higher in Australia, and in both countries for those students who were aged over 26. There were no significant differences between gender and disciplines reported. The paper also discusses broad‐scale implications for the future of research in TPACK.

TrailCare: An indoor and outdoor Context-aware system to assist wheelchair users

Abstract This article proposes a computational system to assist wheelchair users, improving accessibility through ubiquitous computing technologies. TrailCare uses indoor and outdoor location information to assist wheelchair users, recording their trails and providing context-aware assistance. Trails are historical records of users’ displacements that can be used to develop strategic accessibility solutions, such as security management and recommendation through inferences on behavior. TrailCare contributions are the indoor/outdoor trail-aware strategy and its application to recommend contextualized accessibility resources. The system was implemented and integrated with a motorized wheelchair manufactured by a Brazilian company. The prototype is a complete and functional system based on one of the most used wheelchair models in Brazil. TrailCare was assessed through three practical experiments involving scenarios in a university campus. The first two experiments aimed to evaluate the system functionalities. They consisted of two scenarios that tested practical situations supported by the technologies of context awareness and indoor/outdoor trail awareness. The third experiment focused on evaluating the user experience with the system. It comprised a scenario that was followed by 10 wheelchair users, who were observed by researchers regarding usability aspects. The users also filled out a survey based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The survey was composed by 10 sentences and the results of each one are discussed. The experiments allowed us to learn 10 relevant lessons about technological and usability aspects of the TrailCare that are recorded in this article. The results also showed 96% of acceptance regarding perceived ease of use and 98% in perceived usefulness. The results of experiments showed the potential for implementing TrailCare in real-life situations, allowing the use of ubiquitous technologies to support accessibility for wheelchair users.

Manifestations, Drivers, and Frictions of Mobile Phone Use in Low- and Middle-Income Settings: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Rural India and China

Against the backdrop of alleged mobile phone ubiquity and the enthusiasm about the developmental value of mobile technology, this paper examines the manifestations, drivers, and frictions of mobile phone use in two low- and middle-income settings where mobile technology has diffused rapidly. Qualitative data from 231 participants and survey data from 800 adults in rural Rajasthan and Gansu provide consistent and strong support for the claim that the notion of ‘ubiquity’ can mislead development practice because it obscures persistent non-use, under-utilisation, and heterogeneous engagement with mobile technology despite its apparently wide accessibility in rural field sites. The paper suggests avenues for further work on the indicators of technology adoption, and it cautions that phone-based development interventions (and their benefits) may diffuse unevenly if the assumption of ubiquitous technology use is violated.

Ubiquitous Technology in Healthcare and Teaching-Learning: Scourge or Blessing?

The author in this article introduces a discussion of one school of nursing's efforts integrating telehealth education into undergraduate and graduate curricula using King's theory of goal attainment as a guide. The introduction shares a story of loss in a rural setting without access to quality healthcare to highlight the blessing technology may be. However, challenges are discussed that arise through the ubiquitous use of technology in person-to-person communication and relationships.

Intelligent Wildlife Tracking Using Ubiquitous Technological Suite

This paper proposes an intelligent system to track location of an individual animal or animals in wildlife sanctuary. Existing systems makes use of various technologies such as RFID, GPS, GSM, etc. RFID based systems either lack in range if passive tags are used or lack in cost effectiveness if active tags are used. Similarly, GSM based system becomes costlier and requires constant network connectivity. Hence this paper proposes a Wi-Fi based tracking system. Proposed system makes use of ubiquitous technology which encourages the use of Wi-Fi Transceivers. The Stationary Wi-Fi Transceiver consists of ESP8266 NodeMCU development board which detects the Mobile Transceiver. The Mobile Transceiver consists of ESP8266 NodeMCU attached to animals. The Stationary Wi-Fi transceiver detects Mobile Transceivers under its vicinity and sends the data to other Stationary transceiver through hop based transmission and ultimately the data is stored in the database. The mobile application accesses the location information from the database for particular animal and plots it onto the Map. This paper comprises of system architecture, proposed algorithm and mathematical model.

Perspective: Time to expand the mind.

Thoughtful use of ubiquitous technology can improve mental ability more than drugs and devices, say Nicholas S. Fitz and Peter B. Reiner.

A bibliometric analysis of privacy and ethics in IEEE Security and Privacy

The increasingly ubiquitous use of technology has led to the concomitant rise of intensified data collection and the ethical issues associated with the privacy and security of that data. In order to address the question of how these ethical concerns are discussed in the literature surrounding the subject, we examined articles published in IEEE Security and Privacy, a magazine targeted towards a general, technically-oriented readership spanning both academia and industry. Our investigation of the intersection between the ethical and technological dimensions of privacy and security is structured as a bibliometric analysis. Our dataset covers all articles published in IEEE Security and Privacy since its inception in 2003 to February 06, 2014 . This venue was chosen not only because of its target readership, but also because a preliminary search of keywords related to ethics, privacy, and security topics in the ISI Web of Knowledge and IEEE Xplore indicated that IEEE Security and Privacy has published a preponderance of articles matching those topics. In fact, our search returned two-fold more articles for IEEE Security and Privacy than the next most prolific venue. These reasons, coupled with the fact that both academia and industry are well-represented in the authorship of articles makes IEEE Security and Privacy an excellent candidate for bibliometric analysis. Our analysis examines the ways articles in IEEE Security and Privacy relate ethics to information technology. Such articles can influence the development of law, policy and the future of information technology ethics. We employed thematic and JK-biplot analyses of content relating privacy and ethics and found eight dominant themes as well as the inter-theme relationships. Authors and institutional affiliations were examined to discern whether centers of research activity and/or authors dominated the overall field or thematic areas. Results suggest avenues for future work in critical areas, especially for closing present gaps in the coverage of ethics and information technology privacy and security themes particularly in the areas of ethics and privacy awareness.

Preventing sensitive relationships disclosure for better social media preservation

A fundamental aspect of all social networks is information sharing. It is one of the most common forms of online interaction that is tightly associated with social media preservation and information disclosure. As such, information sharing is commonly viewed as a key enabler for social media preservation tasks. In the current situation, where information sharing and inter-user communications are made instantly possible via the widespread use of ubiquitous technologies, privacy related, and particularly information disclosure issues, are the obvious, much discussed, immediate consequences of information sharing. As a result, information disclosure, especially when multimedia data come to play, is critical for appropriate social media preservation strategies that consider and respect the privacy of social network users. Social media preservation must align with privacy protection solutions and consequently must protect sensitive information that social network users would like to keep private. In this paper, we propose a new approach to implement a privacy-oriented social media preservation strategy that prevents the disclosure of sensitive information. Instead of using a preserve-all strategy, we present a framework to personalize social media preservation tasks. We then describe our proposed rule-based algorithm to evaluate information disclosure addressing mainly relationship type disclosure and using shared photos. We also provide an experimental study to investigate the efficiency and the relevance of our approach.

Watching You Watching Me: Boundary Control and Capturing Attention in the Context of Ubiquitous Technology Use

As information communication technologies proliferate in the workplace, organizations face unique challenges managing how and when employees engage in work and nonwork activities. Using interview and archival data from the U.S. Navy, we explore one organization’s attempts to shape individual attention in an effort to exert boundary control. We describe the organizational productivity and security problems that result from individual attention being engaged in nonwork activities while at work, and find that the organization manages these problems by monitoring employees (tracking attention), contextualizing technology use to remind people of appropriate organizational use practices (cultivating attention), and diverting, limiting, and withholding technology access (restricting attention). We bring together research on attention and control to challenge current definitions of boundary control, and we detail the understudied situational controls used by the organization to shape work–nonwork interactions in the moment. We highlight how situational control efforts must work together in order to capture attention and shape behavior, and we develop a model to explicate this ongoing process of boundary control. Our findings offer insight into the evolving challenges that organizations face in executing boundary control, as well as of organizational control more broadly, in the modern workplace.

Types and Levels of Ubiquitous Technology use among ICT Undergraduates

Due to the chrysalis of the advanced ubiquitous technology and their capabilities in assisting students to engage and occupy with the ubiquitous learning, most undergraduates have owned an au courant technology and using them ubiquitously either for learning or leisure purposes. Hence, this study is to identify the types and levels of ubiquitous technology use among undergraduates from one of four Malaysian Technical Universities. This will actually represent how undergraduates at higher learning in Malaysia use ubiquitous technology and the level of use of ubiquitous technology. This will assist the university's administration in preparing a path towards implementing a ubiquitous learning environment at the university. The data of this study is gathered through a 5 point-Likert scale questionaire, with the reliability of 0.819 for levels of use and 0.901 for types of use. The sample is undergraduates studying at Information, Communication & Technology Faculty and statistical analyses of data collected are performed by SPSS 17. Results show that majority of the students is at routine level of ubiquitous technology use (mean = 2.74, SD = 0.484), meanwhile, the central type of ubiquitous technology use is for inquiry and general use, followed by communication use, expression use and construction use.