Evaluation of Reliability of Mobile ICT Services

This study investigates the contextual and relational characteristics that underlie people’s information and communication technology (ICT) use and the implications for their well-being. We contextualize this investigation according to migrants, because they are faced with disruptions to their personal networks in the migration process that may attenuate the availability of social support and negatively affect their mental health. Migrants tend to be proficient in using mobile ICT to connect with different social ties to fulfill their needs, which potentially makes a difference to their psychological well-being. Through a survey of 504 internal migrant workers in China, we examined the social network factors that underlie multiple mobile ICT use and the attendant influences on social support and psychological well-being. Redressing the overemphasis on the importance of strong ties in extant literature, this study highlights the salience of mobile media multiplexity (i.e., the use of multiple mobile communication channels for social interactions) in weak tie communication and the greater contribution of weak ties toward social support and psychological well-being than strong ties. Our findings suggest that mobile-mediated communicative relationships with newer and more distanced social connections outside their immediate circles enhance the well-being of migrants. We contend that media multiplexity vis-à-vis weak ties underscores the reconfiguration of migrants’ communicative relationships following the separation from original ties and facilitates rewarding interactions with new ties.

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Secured Professional Use of Mobile ICT Devices

Embedded Systems and Wireless Technology ◽

10.1201/b12298-4 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 73-84

Author(s):

Jeanne Schreurs ◽

Ahmad Al-Huneidi ◽

Tom Princen

Keyword(s):

Mobile Ict

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The research of process of applying mobile ICT by university students: mobile testing systems and mobile means of multimedia development

Освітній вимір ◽

10.31812/educdim.v53i1.3839 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 125-146

Author(s):

Viktoriia V. Tkachuk ◽

Yuliia V. Yechkalo ◽

Serhiy O. Semerikov

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

University Students ◽

Classroom Environment ◽

Experimental Testing ◽

Educational Process ◽

Individual Student ◽

Mobile Testing ◽

Multimedia Development ◽

The University ◽

Mobile Ict

The study is aimed at theoretical substantiation, development and experimental testing of methods of applying mobile technologies by university students. The objectives of the study imply adapting mobile testing systems and mobile means of multimedia development for using in the classroom environment at universities. The research object is application of mobile ICT to the educational process. The research subject is methods of applying mobile testing systems and mobile means to conduct practical classes at the University. The studies of Ukrainian and foreign researchers dedicated to the question of using mobile ICT for the university educational process were analyzed. Mobile testing systems are defined as a variety of mobile software support aimed firstly to measure students’ academic results, which enables to automatize the process of both current and final control through applying modern testing means, and secondly to intensify the educational process comprehensively. It is found that mobile means of multimedia development are to fulfill the principles of multimedia, space vicinity, time contiguity, coherence, modality, excessiveness, personalization, interactivity signalization and individual distinctions. The authors have developed the methods of applying mobile testing systems by taking Plickers system, as the one providing the opportunity to arrange a rapid feedback between a lecturer and both an academic group and an individual student. The system also allows conducting mobile surveys, in- class general questioning and instant control of students’ attendance. The authors have developed methods of applying mobile tools of multimedia development through using augmented reality. The comparative assessment of functionality of mobile testing systems and mobile means of developing augmented reality multimedia was held. Efficiency of the developed technology was experimentally tested and confirmed.

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Leveraging Socially Networked Mobile ICT Platforms for the Last-Mile Delivery Problem

Environmental Science & Technology ◽

10.1021/es301302k ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (17) ◽

pp. 9481-9490 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Kyo Suh ◽

Timothy Smith ◽

Michelle Linhoff

Keyword(s):

Delivery Problem ◽

Last Mile ◽

Last Mile Delivery ◽

Mobile Ict

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Participatory Design and Creativity in Development of Information and Communication Technologies

Designing for Networked Communications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-069-1.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 75-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nette Schultz ◽

Lene Sørensen ◽

Dan Saugstrup

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Design Process ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Early Stage ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Development Project ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Ict Development ◽

Mobile Ict

This chapter presents and discusses a new design framework for involving users at an early stage in a mobile ICT development project. A user-centered design process, in which participatory design principles are combined with creativity techniques, is used in order to create scenarios as a communication tool between users and system designers. The theoretical basis for the framework is described, leading to a new participatory design and creativity framework. Empirical insight into how the framework has been developed and used in practice is presented based on the experiences and results from a large ICT development project within the ?eld of mobile communication. Finally, the value of applying creativity as part of a participatory design process is discussed.

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Boundaryless Work and the Role of Mobile ICT

Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-906-0.ch056 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 927-941

Author(s):

Ragnhild Mogren ◽

Camilla Thunborg

Keyword(s):

Boundary Object ◽

Time And Space ◽

Work Identity ◽

Time Space ◽

Social Theories ◽

Boundaryless Work ◽

Mobile Ict ◽

Borderland Narratives ◽

Extended Work

The change of structures of work towards fewer boundaries in time, space and tasks are sometimes referred to as boundaryless work. ICT is pointed out as one cause of this tendency. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the role of mobile ICT in the forming of the borderland between work and non-work and the identities formed in relation to this borderland: how is mobile ICT used in work and non-work, how is this use related to the forming of a borderland between work and non-work, what are the characteristics of the identities formed in this borderland? Narratives of experience of mobile ICT practices are analysed by means of social theories. The results show that mobile ICT is used as a boundary object between work and non-work. In distinguishing between functions and artefacts, between time and space, different identities are formed: extended work identity, border identity and boundaryless identity.

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