scholarly journals Strategic Planning for Xiaomi: Smart Phones, Crisis, Turning Point

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lung-Tan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
China Market ◽  
The World

The aims of this case study are to design, practice, and evaluate a group of comparative strategies for one of the leading smart phone companies in the world: Xiaomi Inc. to turn a crisis into an expansion opportunity. First, the worldwide market of smart phones is illustrated. Second, we show the highly competition of smart phones in China market. Third, the development of Xiaomi Inc. is overviewed. Finally, we use several strategic matrixes: (1) IFE, (2) EFE, (3) CPM, (4) SWOT, (5) SPACE, (6) BCG, (7) IE, (8) GSM, (9) QSPM to evaluate and develop strategies for Xiaomi so as to change crisis into a turning point.

India Goes Digital..Smartphone is the New Shopping Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Shankar Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
User Friendly

Despite being in nascent stage m-commerce is gaining momentum in India. The explosive growth of smart-phone users has made India much loved business destination for whole world. Indian internet user is becoming the second largest in the world next to China surpassing US, which throws open plenty of e-commerce opportunities, not only for Indian players, offshore players as well. Mobile commerce is likely to overtake e-commerce in the next few years, spurred by the continued uptrend in online shopping and increasing use of mobile apps.The optimism comes from the fact that people accessing the Internet through their mobiles had jumped 33 per cent in 2014 to 173 million and is expected to grow 21 per cent year-on-year till 2019 to touch 457 million. e-Commerce brands are eyeing on the mobile app segment by developing user-friendly and secure mobile apps offering a risk-free and easy shopping experience to its users. Budget 4G smart phones coupled with affordable plans, can very well drive 4G growth in India.

Vocational Development in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Vocational Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts

Chapter 6 reviews research on the topic of vocational/occupational development in relation to the McAdams and Pals tripartite personality framework of traits, goals, and life stories. Distinctions between types of motivations for the work role (as a job, career, or calling) are particularly highlighted. The authors then turn to research from the Futures Study on work motivations and their links to personality traits, identity, generativity, and the life story, drawing on analyses and quotes from the data set. To illustrate the key concepts from this vocation chapter, the authors end with a case study on Charles Darwin’s pivotal turning point, his round-the-world voyage as naturalist for the HMS Beagle. Darwin was an emerging adult in his 20s at the time, and we highlight the role of this journey as a turning point in his adult vocational development.

scholarly journals Investigation of Vocational High School Students 'Views on Smart Phone Use: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Ezgi Pelin Yildiz ◽  
Ayşe Alkan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Information And Communication

The most preferred tools of technology today are internet and smart phones. Nowadays, these two tools offer numerous services and facilities to humanity in many areas. Accessing technology at any time, having a pleasant time, interacting without the limitations of face to face communication are some of them. That is why; individuals have become unable to live without internet and smartphones. Especially the rapid developments in information and communication technologies, internet and social media media, which is among the means of access to smart phones among university students and has made widespread use. In this context, a case study was conducted in order to examine the opinions of the students about the use of smart phones in Vocational High School students. For this purpose, the students' opinions were taken with a structured interview form. The questions in the interview form were developed by the researchers by conducting a comprehensive literature review. Expert opinion was consulted in the preparation of the interview form. The experts evaluated the suitability of the questions in terms of scope and language. The study group consisted of 10 students from the Department of Computer Programming and Computer Technology of Kafkas University. It is foreseen that the results of the research can lead to future scientific studies.

A Case Study of Citizen-to-Government Mobile Activism in Jamaica

2015 ◽  
pp. 596-612
Author(s):  
Lloyd G. Waller ◽  
Cedric A. L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Small States ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter draws attention to the emergence of Mobile Activism (M-Activism) in small states. More specifically, the chapter presents the findings of a qualitative descriptive research project, which utilizes a combination of case study and discourse analysis methodologies to describe how mobile smart phones were used by a small group of activists in Jamaica to protest a violation of the Rule Of Law (ROL). The findings demonstrate that mobile smart phones can be used as an effective and efficient tool for activists to engage citizens, government agents, and government, and gain support for their cause. The findings indicate that these smart phones can be used to access and convey messages to a wide audience of e-citizens and thus have the potential for encouraging support as well as interest in a cause. The findings have wide implications with respect to: 1) how mobile technology provides opportunities to transform the relationship between governments and citizens and 2) the possible future of protests and activism in small states. The findings also have wider implications for new and emerging innovative ways of achieving good governance not only in Jamaica but also in other parts of the world.

scholarly journals Development of Sensor Based Applications for the Android Platform: an Approach Based on Realistic Simulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Campillo-Sánchez ◽  
Juan Antonio Botía ◽  
Jorge Gómez-Sanza
Keyword(s):  
Information Source ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Testing Area ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
Wide Testing ◽  
Excessive Number

Smart phones are equipped with a wide range of sensors (such as GPS, light, accelerometer, gyroscope, etc.) and allow users to be connected everywhere. These characteristics offer a rich information source for creating context-aware applications. However, testing these applications in the lab, before their deployment, could become a hard task or impossible because of sensors correlation, too wide testing area or an excessive number of people involved. This work aims to solve these problems carrying out the testing in a simulator, simulating the world in which the application user is immersed into. Tester controls her avatar and the avatar has a simulated smart phone that is connected with the user’s smart phone. Applications under test are installed on the real smart phone and are compiled with a library that replaces standard services of the sensors by others that offer data sensor from the simulator (depending on the simulated smart phone context) instead of real world.

scholarly journals Design E-Wallet as a Centralized E-wallet

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1993-1999
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Wallets

Now days, billions of people are using smart phones all over the world and as the phone gets smarter, the new features gets added that reduces the human efforts in many fields. Smart phone makes the payment of different things such as ordering food, booking a cab, ordering grocery, booking a movie ticket via different mobile applications. These mobile applications work with the support of e-wallets which is recognized as digital wallets. This paper proposes the design of connecting different e-wallets present into a single smart phone. The proposed method will make digital payment much less cumbersome

scholarly journals Gender Based Smartphone Addiction and Aftermath in Family Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1465-1468
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Predictive Methods ◽  
Gender Based

There are distinct modes for communication. Smart phones played an essential role in this era. Smart phones that can also be worked as computer and helps us to do a limited amount of work. According to statistics there are 3.3 billion smart phone users in the world. It also becomes extremely helpful for study purpose and for official purpose. They often create fewer bonds with their family. Due to surplus use of phone it made ravage in family relationship. Thus the usage of smart phone results in considerable deviation in family relationship .This paper deals with gender based smart phone addiction and effect on family relationships. The paper focuses on predictive methods like naive bayes, Knn and logistic regression to find out how the smart phones are going to create an impact in family relations. This helps to find smart phones effects in family relationship. The problems due to high consumption of it can be identified and future precautions can be taken immediately according to it.

scholarly journals Users Attitude towards Use of Smart Phones to Access Information: A Case Study of PG Students’ of Bodoland University in Kokrajhar, Assam

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Verma ◽  
Krishna Brahma
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Access Information

The purpose of this study is to investigate users’ attitude towards the use of smart phones to access information by the students of Bodoland University in Kokrajhar, Assam. It is carried out in order to know the extent of use of the mobile phone for accessing library services and other information. A survey has been conducted in which random sampling technique has been applied for the collection of data i.e., 250 PG students of Bodoland University were asked to fill the structured questionnaires and in the same day, duly filled-in questionnaires were collected. The data were analyzed and presented in the form of tables and graphs. From the study, it revealed that the population taken for the study are all using smart phone, majority are using since 5 years, total 14 different brands were used, in which Samsung was popular among the mentioned brands and PANASONIC, NOKIA and Karbonn are the least used brand by the respondents, majority uses phone for the purpose of accessing information, paid internet service is mostly used and indicated 4G as most preferred paid internet service. It also examined the frequency of using smart phone. The study found that majority 192 students are not using smart phone for accessing any library services, only 58 students are recorded of accessing library services mostly for the purpose of searching books or checking catalogue and 46% students are satisfied, 44% are highly satisfied and the least 10% are partially satisfied.

scholarly journals ‘You need to research your subject so you know the subject well, and your users so you know what they need’. Teaching graphic design using information design principles.

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Eden J. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Design Students

Set against a background of graphic designs identity crisis, this paper proposes that information design can provide an adaptable and relevant framework for teaching graphic design. With social, technological, environmental, and industrial changes providing a new context for design and how it operates in the world, an audience-focussed, problem-solving approach is validated as central to reimagining graphic design education. Through a case study example, the paper suggests that when graphic design students in a traditional craft-based design education programme are offered a human-centred approach to solving design problemsspecifically information design problem solving and research methodstheir own graphic design practice changes.

A Case Study of Citizen-to-Government Mobile Activism in Jamaica

2013 ◽  
pp. 172-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd G. Waller ◽  
Cedric A. L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Small States ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter draws attention to the emergence of Mobile Activism (M-Activism) in small states. More specifically, the chapter presents the findings of a qualitative descriptive research project, which utilizes a combination of case study and discourse analysis methodologies to describe how mobile smart phones were used by a small group of activists in Jamaica to protest a violation of the Rule Of Law (ROL). The findings demonstrate that mobile smart phones can be used as an effective and efficient tool for activists to engage citizens, government agents, and government, and gain support for their cause. The findings indicate that these smart phones can be used to access and convey messages to a wide audience of e-citizens and thus have the potential for encouraging support as well as interest in a cause. The findings have wide implications with respect to: 1) how mobile technology provides opportunities to transform the relationship between governments and citizens and 2) the possible future of protests and activism in small states. The findings also have wider implications for new and emerging innovative ways of achieving good governance not only in Jamaica but also in other parts of the world.

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