scholarly journals A Comparison of Usability Factors of Four Mobile Devices for Accessing Healthcare Information by Adolescents

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 356-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Sheehan ◽  
Y. Lee ◽  
M. Rodriguez ◽  
V. Tiase ◽  
R. Schnall
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Interface Quality ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Task Time ◽  
Individual Task ◽  
Task Technology Fit

SummaryBackground: Mobile health (mHealth) is a growing field aimed at developing mobile information and communication technologies for healthcare. Adolescents are known for their ubiquitous use of mobile technologies in everyday life. However, the use of mHealth tools among adolescents is not well described.Objective: We examined the usability of four commonly used mobile devices (an iPhone, an Android with touchscreen keyboard, an Android with built-in keyboard, and an iPad) for accessing healthcare information among a group of urban-dwelling adolescents.Methods: Guided by the FITT (Fit between Individuals, Task, and Technology) framework, a think-aloud protocol was combined with a questionnaire to describe usability on three dimensions: 1) task-technology fit; 2) individual-technology fit; and 3) individual-task fit.Results: For task-technology fit, we compared the efficiency, and effectiveness of each of the devices tested and found that the iPhone was the most usable had the fewest errors and prompts and had the lowest mean overall task time For individual-task fit, we compared efficiency and learnability measures by website tasks and found no statistically significant effect on tasks steps, task time and number of errors. Following our comparison of success rates by website tasks, we compared the difference between two mobile applications which were used for diet tracking and found statistically significant effect on tasks steps, task time and number of errors. For individual-technology fit, interface quality was significantly different across devices indicating that this is an important factor to be considered in developing future mobile devices.Conclusions: All of our users were able to complete all of the tasks, however the time needed to complete the tasks was significantly different by mobile device and mHealth application. Future design of mobile technology and mHealth applications should place particular importance on interface quality.Citation: Sheehan B, Lee Y, Rodriguez M, Tiase V, Schnall R. A Comparison of Usability Factors of Four Mobile Devices for Accessing Healthcare Information by Adolescents. Appl Clin Inf 2012; 3: 356–366http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2012-06-RA-0021

scholarly journals Uses and integration of augmented reality in the educational cooperatives of Andalusia (Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jesús López Belmonte ◽  
Santiago Pozo Sánchez ◽  
Arturo Fuentes Cabrera ◽  
José María Romero Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

The use of mobile devices in classrooms is becoming more and more common. The introduction of these resources to produce learning is part of the mobile learning methodology. Among the possibilities of these devices provide we can find, as an emerging technology, augmented reality, which combines elements of the real world with virtual images. The purpose of this paper is to know the impact of the augmented reality in the educational cooperatives of Andalusia. In this regard, educational cooperatives are centers characterized in their origin by promoting the development of methodologies based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The data collection instrument used in this questionnaire is a quantitative methodology of a descriptive nature. The questionnaire was prepared ad hoc according to the existing literature and the answers coded on a Likert scale. The results show that only a minority of teachers implement the augmented reality in their classes. In addition, there are statistically significant differences in terms of professional experience, so that younger teachers tend to implement methodologies based on the use of emerging mobile technologies such as augmented reality. Finally, it is emphasized that despite the constant technological advance of mobile devices in society, their application in the classroom occurs slowly.

Mobility in Healthcare

2017 ◽  
pp. 782-810
Author(s):  
Güney Gürsel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Remote Healthcare

Mobility is the blossoming technology of our era. Mobile devices, especially smart phones, tablets, phablets are becoming common, and they are being a part of us as we carry all the time with us. Business discovered the easy-to-reach-customer facility of mobility and companies focus on this area. Scientific research focused on this area as well. Using the facilities provided with all the time with us mobile devices, especially healthcare can gain tremendous advances and have already done in some applications. Remote healthcare, decreased costs, advanced healthcare access, prioritizing the patients, can be given as examples to the advances that have been gained. As the mobile healthcare applications becoming common, there exists a danger of abuse and misuse. The need for regulations has emerged. The purpose of this study is to give basic information and vision about the usage of mobility in medical domain to ease healthcare and make it more effective. The mobile technologies used in the healthcare information systems, together with the challenges, problems and regulations, is explained.

The virtual world, mobile technology and return to the real world

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Rostislav Fojtik
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Information And Communication

Information and communication technologies have established themselves in all areas of human life. We use these technologies for work but also for entertainment. Computers facilitates numerous activities. New technologies also bring new problems. Therefore, educational institutions must respond to this situation. Children use computer devices very often, also to the detriment of their movement. Children also use a lot of mobile devices. There is a tendency to use mobile devices in the classroom and find new teaching methods. According to international research has current way of life negatively affects health, especially children. Children too much time sitting at the computer, stare into its smartphones, watching television for a long time. They move little and they carry little activity outside. The paper describes case study among children. We used questionnaire method and long-term observation. The first questionnaire was completed by 138 students aged 11 to 19 years. Obtained data are processed by statistical methods. For analysis of the results in each item was measured as having detected data variability. We used a coefficient of variation. To interpret the results of the second stage classification was done chi-square test. We've also used a case study. We are within one year we observed 15 boys aged 10 to 17 years. We have focused on observing their physical condition, any manually abilities, use of leisure time. This paper aims to show the possibilities of using information and communication technologies in promoting the healthy development of children. The paper shows practical examples of informatics education. The paper describes examples for education of informatics with physical activity. The findings were obtained in a survey that the detection methods used knowledge case study, questionnaire, observation, interview and pedagogical experiment. Keywords: Mobile technologies; a pedagogical experiment; a questionnaire; an observation; the virtual world

scholarly journals CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF FUTURE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ PREPAREDNESS TO ORGANIZE MOBILE LEARNING FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
L.R. SHARAFEEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Digital Resource ◽  
Activity Component ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

Statement of the problem. In the context of digitalization of education, the main prerequisite is creation of a digital educational environment that opens up new opportunities: learning at any convenient time, continuous education, the ability to design individual educational routes, transfer from digital resource consumers to digital resource creators. Various digital educational resources, distance learning platforms, cloud technologies, and the use of mobile devices help realize these opportunities. The pedagogical community is developing modern formats to introduce mobile devices into the educational process. Mobile technologies arouse students’ increased motivation and interest in learning, help expand the horizons of knowledge acquisition and build an individual learning roadmap – all this leads to the improved quality of education. Today we see the need to introduce mobile technologies into the educational process and at the same time we see insufficient knowledge about the didactic potential of using mobile devices and services in the learning process, as well as issues of training personnel for organizing mobile learning for schoolchildren. The purpose of the article is to determine the content and structure of future mathematics teachers’ preparedness to organize mobile learning for schoolchildren. Methodology (materials and methods) includes analysis and synthesis of the works of Russian and foreign researchers on the problem under study, as well as the experience of training teachers in the field of information and communication technologies. Research results. An essential prerequisite for the performance effectiveness is the person’s preparedness for its implementation. In this study, we examined the preparedness of future mathematics teachers to organize schoolchildren’s mobile learning as a personality education that has a systemic, complex structure and acts as a set of motivational, personal, theoretical, activity-related and reflective components. In the structure of the activity component, we identified three levels of preparedness of future mathematics teachers to organize schoolchildren’s mobile learning (basic, creative, and professional). Conclusion. The maturity of these components helps future teachers of mathematics to organize schoolchildren’ mobile learning in line with the requirements of modern education, thereby preparing the younger generation for study, life, and work in a dynamically changing world.

Mobility in Healthcare

2019 ◽  
pp. 630-658
Author(s):  
Güney Gürsel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Remote Healthcare

Mobility is the blossoming technology of our era. Mobile devices, especially smart phones, tablets, phablets are becoming common, and they are being a part of us as we carry all the time with us. Business discovered the easy-to-reach-customer facility of mobility and companies focus on this area. Scientific research focused on this area as well. Using the facilities provided with all the time with us mobile devices, especially healthcare can gain tremendous advances and have already done in some applications. Remote healthcare, decreased costs, advanced healthcare access, prioritizing the patients, can be given as examples to the advances that have been gained. As the mobile healthcare applications becoming common, there exists a danger of abuse and misuse. The need for regulations has emerged. The purpose of this study is to give basic information and vision about the usage of mobility in medical domain to ease healthcare and make it more effective. The mobile technologies used in the healthcare information systems, together with the challenges, problems and regulations, is explained.

scholarly journals Innovative Behavior of the Poznań Agglomeration Inhabitants in the Transport Services Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Bogdan Sojkin ◽  
Szymon Michalak
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Product Innovations ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Information And Communication

Summary The development of information and communication technologies, including in particular the modern development of mobile technologies, has an undeniable impact on people’s lives and, consequently, on consumers’ market behaviour. The growing popularity and capabilities of mobile devices, as well as the increasing availability of mobile Internet access, mean that in many markets companies are redefining their business models, in which the activities conducted via the Internet play an increasingly important role. This is particularly visible on the market of individual and public transport services, where thanks to mobile devices, as well as in consistency with trends in consumer market behaviours and the development of cities in accordance with the smart city concept, for several years now we can observe the emergence of innovative alternatives to traditional forms of transport. The pace of appearance of product innovations on the market depends, of course, to a large extent on the level of acceptance of innovation by consumers. The aim of the article is to determine the degree of innovativeness of the inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration in the use of transport solutions available in Poznań. The research part presents the results of own research conducted in 2019 on a sample of 795 respondents. They showed that the inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration are not afraid to use product innovations on the market of transport services and use them to a greater extent than in the case of the general population.

Making REDD+ Transparent: Opportunities for Mobile Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-117
Author(s):  
Adam Bumpus ◽  
Thu-Ba Huynh ◽  
Sophie Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Transfer Of Information ◽  
Reporting And Verification

Transparency in climate finance mechanisms, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), relies on the transfer of information within a complex global web of state and nonstate actors. Such information is required under internationally agreed REDD+ safeguards, including measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) processes and free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and works to establish substantive and normative transparency. However, the sources of, access to, and outcomes from these information flows are still contentious. To address these problems, REDD+ project proponents are increasingly looking to information and communication technologies, such as mobile devices, to improve information gathering, processing, and access. In this article we develop a model and provide tentative examples of how normative and substantive transparency are connected through input and output legitimacy within broader governance contexts. We highlight that even though mobile devices are being used to bring forest communities into the REDD+ process, substantive transparency for emissions reductions through MRV tends to be prioritized over normative dimensions associated with FPIC. We conclude by highlighting the need to further understand the role of decentralized information flows in multilevel carbon governance and opportunities for how mobile technologies may be used to address transparency challenges in the governance of REDD+.

scholarly journals The Disparity Information and Communication Technology for Developing Countries has in the Delivery of Healthcare Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prajesh N Chhanabhai ◽  
Alec Holt
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have merged into the world of healthcare slowly but surely. However, the marriage between the use of technology and its full impact in the health sector has not been fully realised. The focus of this paper is to highlight the impact of ICT on revolutionising access to healthcare information and thus quality of health for populations of the developing world. This paper highlights on the importance of being able to access health information and how traditional media methods have been utilised to allow this within a developing country setting, highlighting the clear digital divide. The paper then addresses the impact of convergent communication technologies and mobile technologies in providing a means of addressing existing healthcare problems within a developing country setting.

scholarly journals Integration of Mobile Learning into Complex Problem-Solving Processes during STEM Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Elena Shchedrina ◽  
Elena Galkina ◽  
Irina Petunina ◽  
Richard Lushkov
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Goodness Of Fit Test ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Study Results

<p class="0abstract">Over the past few years, the teaching process has transformed radically under significant investments in information and communication technologies. In this context, mobile technologies emerge as an innovative educational tool. Mobile devices are being used by a vast number of so-called "digital generation" representatives in daily life and educational activities. It has been proven that the implementation of mobile technologies in education contributes to the increase of students' motivation, participation in the learning process, and faster acquisition of professional competencies. These technologies take the role of the "driving force" in training. However, their comprehensive understanding is essential to use them effectively. The objective of this study was to analyze the intensity of mobile technologies' use and investigate their evolution in higher education using the example of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. The research sample was represented by 151 students (data collected for 2015/2016) and 274 students (data for 2019/2020). The average participants' age corresponded to 19.8. The study also involved three experts who were required to evaluate questionnaires completed in Google Forms. The scientific method of the study was based on the organized examination, strict control over the involved respondents, and quantitative research. The research outcomes were analyzed through Chi-Square goodness-of-fit test. The target questions of the survey were rated on a 5-point Likert scale. According to the study results, 95% of the respondents used mobile devices for educational purposes, of which 65% agreed with the convenience of having course materials on a mobile device. In the 2015/2016 academic year, the share of students using smartphones for learning comprised 10.4%, while in 2019/2020, their percentage increased to 61.5%. The study findings will be useful for university teachers and representatives of educational institutions' administration.</p>

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WITH THE USE OF M-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Muzhanovskaya ◽  
T. Kuzhelyuk ◽  
G. Kashyna
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
E Learning

 In the article on the basis of the analysis of scientific and methodological literature and network sources the content of the concepts of "mobile learning", "mobile technologies", "mobile learning technologies" is investigated. So by the concept of mobile learning (m-learning) in the WFD we mean a form of e-learning using the personal mobile devices of students, learning in different contexts - through social and meaningful interaction, using the learning technologies of mobile devices at a convenient time for students. The experience of introducing mobile technologies (m-learning) into the school's educational process is generalized. The article highlights the pedagogical conditions, didactic functions and principles of mobile learning in the HLS. The main aspects of the introduction of mobile learning in the HLS are the use of mobile technology, that is, when a technology tool mediates schoolchildren and knowledge as an extension of e-learning and is one of the possible areas of blended learning, this is learner-centered learning. The peculiarities of the introduction of mobile education in general secondary education institutions are identified, the advantages of the use of mobile learning in the educational space of the WSS are outlined. With the introduction of mobile learning, the educational process adapts to the environment, becoming compact, focused and interactive. In mobile learning, it is important that the information is delivered in small portions, as clearly as possible to the situation and, at the same time, that the process of interaction with the product is satisfying. Accordingly, users' habits are changing: students increasingly want the learning process to be simple, effective and fun. They use mobile devices to communicate with participants in the educational process, providing a new level of communication and learning management. For teachers, the advantage of using mobile learning is the ability to ask students in response to the task, and parents to monitor the progress of children through obtaining relevant information from school.Keywords: mobile learning, e-learning, learning principles, information and communication technologies.

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