scholarly journals A Novel Approach to Trojan Horse Detection in Mobile Phones Messaging and Bluetooth Services

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan A. Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Novel Approach

A Festival-Wide Social Network Using 2D Barcodes, Mobile Phones and Situated Displays

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Eg Larsen ◽  
Arkadiusz Stopczynski
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Client Application ◽  
Mobile Client ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Network Applications ◽  
Network Interaction ◽  
Novel Approach

This paper reports on the authors’ experiences with an exploratory prototype festival-wide social network. Unique 2D barcodes were applied to wristbands and mobile phones to uniquely identify the festival participants at the CO2PENHAGEN music festival in Denmark. The authors describe experiences from initial use of a set of social network applications involving participant profiles, a microblog and images shared on situated displays, and competitions created for the festival. The pilot study included 73 participants, each creating a unique profile. The novel approach had potential to enable anyone at the festival to participate in the festival-wide social network, as participants did not need any special hardware or mobile client application to be involved. The 2D barcodes was found to be a feasible low-cost approach for unique participant identification and social network interaction. Implications for the design of future systems of this nature are discussed.

scholarly journals Using mobile phone diaries to explore children’s everyday lives

Childhood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Plowman ◽  
Olivia Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
The Everyday

This article describes a novel approach to experience sampling as a response to the challenges of researching the everyday lives of young children at home. Parents from 11 families used mobile phones to send the research team combined picture and text messages to provide ‘experience snapshots’ of their child’s activities six times on each of three separate days. The article describes how the method aligns with an ecocultural approach, illustrates the variation in children’s experiences and provides sufficient detail for researchers to adapt the method for the purposes of collecting data in other contexts. The article summarizes the benefits and shortcomings from the perspectives of families and researchers.

scholarly journals A pilot metagenomic study reveals that community derived mobile phones are reservoirs of viable pathogenic microbes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Olsen ◽  
Rania Nassar ◽  
Abiola Senok ◽  
Abdulla Albastaki ◽  
John Leggett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Sequencing Analysis ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Next Generation Sequencing Analysis ◽  
Public Health Authorities

AbstractThere is increasing attention focussed on the risks associated with mobile phones possibly serving as ‘Trojan Horse’ fomites for microbial transmission in healthcare settings. However, little is reported on the presence of microbes on community derived mobile phones which in 2021, numbered in the billions in circulation with majority being used on a daily basis. Identify viable microbial organisms swabbed from smartphones on a university campus. Entire surfaces of 5 mobile phones were swabbed and examined for their microbial content using pre-agar-based growths followed by downstream DNA metagenomic next-generation sequencing analysis. All phones were contaminated with viable microbes. 173 bacteria, 8 fungi, 8 protists, 53 bacteriophages, 317 virulence factor genes and 41 distinct antibiotic resistant genes were identified. While this research represents a pilot study, the snapshot metagenomic analysis of samples collected from the surface of mobile phones has revealed the presence of a large population of viable microbes and an array of antimicrobial resistant factors. With billions of phones in circulation, these devices might be responsible for the rise of community acquired infections. These pilot results highlight the importance of public health authorities considering mobile phones as ‘Trojan Horse’ devices for microbial transmission and ensure appropriate decontamination campaigns are implemented.

A novel approach to reduce the near field electromagnetic scattering for designing HAC compatible mobile phones

2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anping Zhao ◽  
Jani Ollikainen ◽  
Jesper Thaysen ◽  
Thorvaldur Bodvarsson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Electromagnetic Scattering ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Novel Approach

scholarly journals A NOVEL APPROACH ON POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTER BASED ADAPTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jotirmoy Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Electronics ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Step Down ◽  
Power Electronics Converter

Hybrid Portable Universal Adapter is very efficient and new technology which has capable of taking DC and AC input both and can provide constant DC output. This paper presents renewable energy like Solar panels as DC source and normal AC (230V RMS) source. It has controlled circuit incorporated in it to step down AC voltage without using transformer. This model can give constant DC output of 5v. This circuit has parallel converter circuit which converts AC to DC and DC to DC as well. This adapter can be carried easily and we can use it to charge our mobile phones or any power bank

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