scholarly journals Techniques of the tactile body: A cultural phenomenology of toddlers and mobile touchscreens

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Nansen ◽  
Rowan Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Design Constraints ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Event Handling ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Media Interaction ◽  
Input Techniques ◽  
Gesture Input

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped with and through the interfaces, materiality and mobility of haptic media. This article explores these embodied dimensions of young children’s mobile media use, drawing on research from (1) ethnographic observation of young children’s play practices in family homes, (2) analysis of videos of young children’s tactile media interaction shared on YouTube and (3) analysis of user interface (UI) and mobile app developer literature, such as the ‘Event Handling Guide for iOS’, which encodes touchscreen interaction through the design constraints and possibilities of gesture input techniques. Taking as its starting point Marcel Mauss’ famous reflection on body techniques, this article draws on past and present research on mobile technologies, tactility and everyday life, to explore what might be involved in developing a ‘cultural phenomenology’ of mobile touchscreens. This research and analysis reveals the emergence of what we term a haptic habitus or cultivation of embodied dispositions for touchscreen conduct and competence.

scholarly journals Opportunities for Mobile App–Based Adherence Support for Children With Tuberculosis in South Africa

10.2196/19154 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e19154
Author(s):  
Rachel M Morse ◽  
Hanlie Myburgh ◽  
David Reubi ◽  
Ava E Archey ◽  
Leletu Busakwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Treatment Adherence ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Tuberculosis Treatment ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Adherence Support ◽  
Positive Treatment

Tuberculosis is the number one infectious cause of death globally. Young children, generally those younger than 5 years, are at the highest risk of progressing from tuberculosis infection to tuberculosis disease and of developing the most severe forms of tuberculosis. Most current tuberculosis drug formulations have poor acceptability among children and require consistent adherence for prolonged periods of time. These challenges complicate children’s adherence to treatment and caregivers’ daily administration of the drugs. Rapid developments in mobile technologies and apps present opportunities for using widely available technology to support national tuberculosis programs and patient treatment adherence. Pilot studies have demonstrated that mobile apps are a feasible and acceptable means of enhancing children’s treatment adherence for other chronic conditions. Despite this, no mobile apps that aim to promote adherence to tuberculosis treatment have been developed for children. In this paper, we draw on our experiences carrying out research in clinical pediatric tuberculosis studies in South Africa. We present hypothetical scenarios of children’s adherence to tuberculosis medication to suggest priorities for behavioral and educational strategies that a mobile app could incorporate to address some of the adherence support gaps faced by children diagnosed with tuberculosis. We argue that a mobile app has the potential to lessen some of the negative experiences that children associate with taking tuberculosis treatment and to facilitate a more positive treatment adherence experience for children and their caregivers.

Religious Use of Mobile Phones

2015 ◽  
pp. 308-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyong James Cho ◽  
Heidi A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
History Of

Mobile phones have had a profound impact on many aspects of contemporary life, including the practice of religion. This chapter outlines the significance of the intersection of religion and mobile phone technology. The study of religion and mobile phones is closely connected to the broader field of “digital religion,” which for nearly two decades has explored how religious individuals and communities use and respond to digital media. Scholars of digital religion have argued that religious communities and culture are increasingly being influence and shaped by digital media in notable ways, especially in relation to issues of identity, community, and authority (Campbell, 2012). These issues are also important in understanding how religious groups engage with and are influenced by mobile technologies and digital culture. The chapter begins by defining the study of mobile media and outlines the history of digital religion as a field of study. Next, it highlights three key areas of research focus in relation to religion and mobile media: the use of mobile media by religious individuals and communities, how religion has been expressed through mobile applications, and reflection on broader cultural significance of the intersection of religion and mobile phones. This leads to a discussion of emerging issues within the study of religion and mobile phones.

Re-imagining Digital Care and Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Kana Ohashi ◽  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Future ◽  
Silver Bullet

In Chapter 8 we turn to Co-futuring Kinship—the ways in which past and present practices inform how the future of the kinship for care at a distance. This is particularly important for “super-aging” contexts like Japan in which one in three is of 80 years old. Chapter 8 sets the picture for discussion around digital health in which mobile media is fully imbricated in. Discussions around a “silver bullet” in the form of a mobile app still dominate despite the fact that there is much work into the need for social, rather than technological, solutions.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications at a Mega University: Anadolu University Campus App

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozgur Yilmazel ◽  
Erk Ekin
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
University Campus ◽  
User Community ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

This paper explores the use of mobile applications to aid on-campus and off-campus students at a mega university. Anadolu University — with over 1,900,000 students enrolled from over 30 countries — is the world's second largest university by enrolment(List of largest universities by enrolment, 2014). From its early days, the Universityhas used various means to access its students. During the last decade,with the introduction of mobile technologies and smartphones that are connected everywhere, the expectations of students have changed. Students now expect to be in contact with their educational institutions without any barriers. Anadolu University released its first mobile campus app onaniOS platform in May 2012. Students adopted the App quickly and the mobile app user community requested new functionalities. Since then,the University has released three major and over 25 minor releases of the app on both iOS and Android smartphones. This paper describes the lifecycle of Anadolu Campus App and its evolution over the years. It has been widely acceptedby our students both on campus and off campus, andthe increasing number of users gives an insight into the high rate of adoption of smartphones.

Capturing community in mobility: Mobile methods for community informatics

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Chen ◽  
Benjamin V. Hanrahan ◽  
Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan ◽  
John M. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Community Interactions ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Target Behaviors

The field of community informatics focuses on how information and communication technology can contribute to the development and sustainability of local communities. The ubiquity of mobile technologies, coupled with their affordances of connecting people and accessing information anytime, anywhere, brings new opportunities for community informatics research. These same affordances also entrain new methodological challenges in capturing and understanding mobile technology use, as mobile-supported interactions can be difficult to study systematically. Such interactions are often situated in complex social and physical settings, such as the local community context. In response to these challenges, we describe the method for scripting events that participants enact within their community and through which we probe how mobile technology impacts community building and vice versa. With the scripted method, we emphasize the need to integrate multiple streams of data and analyses to triangulate and obtain a holistic picture of community interactions. This scripted method is designed to afford ecological validity in employing socially and behaviorally realistic activities, while maintaining some research control, in providing a standard scaffold for participants to enact target behaviors. We discuss how our method could be leveraged in other mobile media communication studies involved in complex social and physical contexts.

scholarly journals State Control by Stealth in the Big Data Era – From WeChat to the Social Credit System in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-109
Author(s):  
Grace Li
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Credit System ◽  
Social Credit ◽  
Privacy Laws ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Abuse

This paper begins with a brief study on the development of the Chinese all-in-one app, WeChat, explaining how WeChat secured its popularity as the multi-functional ubiquitous mobile app in China. By using WeChat as an example, this paper further studies how the Social Credit System (SCS) in China was established out of collaboration between the Chinese government and eight entrusted private companies. This paper then analyses and evaluates the SCS from a socio-legal perspective, focusing on two key implications: the opaque algorithms and the potential abuse of power. The paper argues that the SCS needs to first gain trust from Chinese citizens. A starting point would be immediate action to standardise and reduce the opacity of the prototype. To enhance the longevity and effectiveness of the SCS, developing a legal framework to prohibit potential information misuse by the State and the entrusted companies is crucial: it needs to be put in place sooner rather than later. In constructing the much-needed legal framework, developing privacy laws is certainly a core step, but the framework needs more than just privacy laws. One crucial safeguard is the requirement for an independent tribunal or ombudsman to deal with credit-related complaints fairly and efficiently.  

scholarly journals Mobile technologies in the professional training of students of economic specialties

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Viacheslav Osadchyi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Financial Monitoring

Representatives of economic specialties must have the skills to use modern information technology in their professional activities. One of these technologies is mobile, based on the use of mobile devices, services and mobile communications. The purpose of the study is to analyze the opportunities and prospects of mobile learning in the process of professional training of students of economic specialties. In order to study the prospects of introducing mobile technologies into the process of professional training for students of economic specialties in mobile app stores, analysis of applications for the platforms of Google Android and Apple iOS was conducted. Mobile applications have been identified which can be used in the process of training students of economic specialties in terms of content and functionality. They were assigned to the following groups: e-books, directories and dictionaries, news editions, manuals and manuals for economists, simulators of economic processes, appendices for learning a foreign language, question sets and simulators for passing the tests on economics, simulators for work with accounting programs, economic courses, economic calendars, economic calculators, financial monitoring applications, business plans and business ideas, notebooks and planners. As a result of a survey of teachers and students, it was concluded that all interviewed have mobile phones and use mobile Internet. In the educational process, mobile applications use 70% of teachers and 97% of students, including special programs of economics using 50% of teachers and 93% of students. Of the applications of economic orientation, most teachers use manuals for economists (70%) and directories and dictionaries (70%), most students - directories (77%) and training simulators for work with accounting programs (73%). Both lecturers and students indicated that they would like to use mobile applications of economic subjects in professional training. The results of the theoretical analysis and the survey give grounds to assert about the sufficient possibilities of available mobile technologies and the positive attitude towards their use in the professional training of students of economic specialties.

scholarly journals Mobile Media – Mobile Creativity?

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Sonja Ganguin ◽  
Anna Hoblitz
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mobility Shift ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Mobile Gaming ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
The University

Today’s society is characterized by a mobility shift in the usage of media, which influences the ways people communicate and express themselves. This paper explores the basic correlation between mobility and creative ways of mobile phone usage. The results of a study conducted among 597 students at the University of Paderborn show how mobile phone users adopt creative ways of communicating in their daily life. Furthermore, different special subgroups of mobile us- ers and their creative actions could be identified. The analysis also reveals a correlation between creative mobile usage and mobile gaming. All in all, this paper aims at highlighting the creative ways in which young adults use mobile technologies.

scholarly journals Analyzing of Customer Requirements to Eric Mobile Application

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Juraj Čamaj ◽  
Jaroslav Mašek ◽  
Martin Kendra
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Basic Characteristics

Abstract Users in transport, forwarding and logistics companies use the mobile technologies for connect to existing information systems. By solving the ERIC Mobile project, these services will also be available on mobile devices. The article is aimed at lancing the requirements of all types of customers for the ERIC Mobile app. After the basic characteristics of the mobile device, the operation systems, the application development typology, the authors focus on the developing application “ERIC Mobile”. The aim of the article is to provide relevant requirements for further research and development of the software application of the rail freight information centre in Europe for end users of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

scholarly journals Appropriation of Mobile Health for Diabetes Self-Management: Lessons From Two Qualitative Studies (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constanze Rossmann ◽  
Claudia Riesmeyer ◽  
Nicola Brew-Sam ◽  
Veronika Karnowski ◽  
Sven Joeckel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

BACKGROUND To achieve clarity on mobile health’s (mHealth’s) potential in the diabetes context, it is necessary to understand potential users’ needs and expectations, as well as the factors determining their mHealth use. Recently, a few studies have examined the user perspective in the mHealth context, but their explanatory value is constrained because of their limitation to adoption factors. OBJECTIVE This paper uses the mobile phone appropriation model to examine how individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes integrate mobile technology into their everyday self-management. The study advances the field beyond mere usage metrics or the simple dichotomy of adoption versus rejection. METHODS Data were gathered in 2 qualitative studies in Singapore and Germany, with 21 and 16 respondents, respectively. Conducting semistructured interviews, we asked respondents about their explicit use of diabetes-related apps, their general use of varied mobile technologies to manage their disease, and their daily practices of self-management. RESULTS The analysis revealed that although some individuals with diabetes used dedicated diabetes apps, most used tools across the entire mobile-media spectrum, including lifestyle and messaging apps, traditional health information websites and forums. The material indicated general barriers to usage, including financial, technical, and temporal restrictions. CONCLUSIONS In sum, we find that use patterns differ regarding users’ evaluations, expectancies, and appropriation styles, which might explain the inconclusive picture of effects studies in the diabetes mHealth context.

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