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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a technology which has found wide use in recent years in Mobile Sector. NFC enables your mobile handset to become your secure wallet and it also converts your mobile to a device that easily communicates with NFC tags in a contactless way to trigger any desired action such as approving your credit card payment without requiring you to type your pin number. The Secure...
This article tries to summarize the developments of the Sightspot Ltd — which were carried out at the University of Debrecen — and the possibilities coming from the introduction of the system. Our aim is to introduce and publish the visions, which were formed during the implementation of the system. The systems introduction opened such new doors, which earlier seemed impassable — now we feel that...
Open education offers higher education opportunities for underprivileged communities and solves the problem of deficit in learning resources, such as human and material resources, throughout developing countries. Open education, however, has certain challenges in terms of dependency on the Internet. The use of mobile devices is expected to aid in meeting these challenges. Mobile learning (m-learning),...
The Internet has spawned many different information exchange systems ranging from file sharing to online social networking. Online social networks (OSNs) have gained significant popularity and are considered to be some the most visited sites. OSN users can interact with friends through various features such as connecting with friends, establishing new friendships, sharing photos and videos, and commenting...
Traditionally, outage reporting has been performed by affected consumers manually calling operators; an inefficient process that extends response and restoration times. A modern approach to outage reporting is needed to ensure continuity of supply to consumers. This paper documents a power outage reporting tool developed, tested and implemented on a localized area at The University of the West Indies,...
Cybercriminals are changing their strategies as users are less concerns on the smartphone and social networks security risks such as spams, that will threaten them as they are more dependent on the smartphone [1]. Thus, there's a need to perform the smartphone forensics analysis to retrieve and analysed the potentially great amounts and extremely valuable information on these devices. This paper investigates...
Smart-phone is a major channel of interpersonal communication. As the rapid development of communication technology, its function is becoming ever more powerful. Meanwhile, people are far more dependent on it. This study aims at investigating how long undergraduate students spend on their smart-phones everyday and the relationship between the time of smart-phone use and loneliness, as while as examining...
Websites are at the heart of information exchange since the evolution of internet. Websites has been instrumental in complementing business with greater outreach to people. Every company/business and even individuals have their websites to reach people, promote their offerings, sell products over the internet etc. Desktops which once used to be primary producer and consumer of information have long...
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to support blended learning. The satisfactory results of our previous research show the use of mobile technology could enhance accessibility and communication in a blended learning course. In Algeria the mobile penetration rate stands at over 111% and 21% with 3G. Since most our students have access to mobile technology, three in five were smartphones,...
This paper discusses causes of the sluggish growth rates of mobile learning in a developing country (Botswana), despite the mobile phone revolution and proposes future directions in application of mobile technology to enhance education in emerging economies.
This paper investigates the use of Responsive Web Design, a popular technique for adapting a web page to different devices, in the context of Connected TV devices. Although all modern Smart TVs feature a web browser, its use is very limited, while user surveys reveal serious usability issues. One of the major problems with TV web browsing is that there are very few TV-optimized websites. Most of the...
Decentralised, peer-to-peer based services present a variety of security and privacy benefits for their users, and highly scalable to cater for a growing numbers of users, without extra servers being required of the service operator. This presents a significant advantage for newly emerging mobile applications (with high numbers of users, and limited funds for infrastructure), although performance...
The virtual reality and real time 3D technology in addition to many other display technologies are getting more and more into our life nowadays. The spread of smart portable devices is changing our style of life, day after day with very rapid advance in technology and capabilities. It is very common now to have VR application either for standalone U; desktop, Web, mobile apps, or even special immersive...
Despite the proliferation of technology enabled services, customer adoption of digital services like e-banking and m-banking is very low. Security concerns pertaining to these services are considered to be one of the most crucial factors to deter an end user to use the service. Efforts have been made in this study to list down various possible security concerns from a multi-stakeholder perspective,...
Advance in Software Defined Network is enabling more possibilities of network infrastructure utilization. For example, underutilized network resource in the production network can be shared to provide research and development network that does not mix with the production one. In our previous work, we already provide users a way to manage their defined network infrastructure through a web interface...
Content oriented networks are proposed as a new network architecture that does not rely on an IP address. Content queries are routed on the content name itself instead of a destination address in these content oriented networks. A huge amount of content exists in a network and the contents from mobile devices are also used. When the content from a mobile device moves somewhere else, all the routing...
Since the 1980s, the telephone survey has become a primary form for gathering public opinion or market information. Polling can help understand the general population's opinions, consumers' behaviors or predict election results. Based on AAPOR, it became clear that most telephone surveys of the general population would require the combination of a sample reached via landline and one reached via cell...
In this paper, we study the relationship between continuation of use (COU) factor and the users' intention to purchase items in smartphone applications. We also proposed the four factors: trust, diversity of in- app items, social norm and resource usage, specifically affect the COU of the smartphone applications. Structural equation model (SEM) analysis of a questionnaire based survey collected from...
In this paper we utilize mobile handset-based measurements to examine smartphone generated mobile network usage. The focus is on user behavior analysis and network session is defined as the measure of network usage. In particular, we utilize the richness of handset-based data to understand the offline/background actions leading to the network usage. We make a distinction between human versus machine-generated...
The knowledge society technologies sought in the agility and mobility needed to interact with information. Given the characteristics of ubiquity, mobility and personal nature, mobile devices have taken a prominent place in people's lives. Our students considered "digital natives" born in this environment and are familiar with therefore these technologies. In this context, it is understood...
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