11 articles in this issue
Collins N Udanor,Ogbonna U. Oparaku
Mobile devices have emerged as our daily companion whose applicability evolves as the day unfolds. One of such applications is in the area of learning, called mobile learning (M-learning). However, as with all new technologies, M-learning is faced with th... see more
Dr. Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh,Mujahed ALdhaifallah,Dmitry Namiot
This paper discusses location-based service for telecom providers. Most of the location-based services in the mobile networks are introduced and deployed by Internet companies. It leaves for telecom just the role of the data channel. Telecom providers sho... see more
Alejandro Rivero-Rodriguez,Paolo Pileggi,Ossi Antero Nykänen
Mobile applications often adapt their behavior according to user context, however, they are often limited to consider few sources of contextual information, such as user position or language. This article reviews existing work in context-aware systems (CA... see more
Ivana Simonova
Mobile devices have become widely accepted and exploited didactic means on all levels of education and in all subjects to appropriate extent, including foreign languages. This study focuses on their use within technical (i.e. bachelor) and engineering (i.... see more
Sakunthala Yatigammana Ekanayake,Kamalanath Samarakoon
The potential of mobile phones to facilitate students’ science learning, when they are engaging in group activities, was investigated. To minimize the disciplinary issues emerged from the previous research on mobile devices and to enhance the quality of l... see more
Filippos Giannakas,Georgios Kambourakis,Andreas Papasalouros,Stefanos Gritzalis
Nowadays, due to widespread participation of elementary school children in cyberspace activities, basic cybersecurity education and awareness is deemed necessary. Within this context, knowledge acquisition in this timely and important field has greater ch... see more
Mohammad Ismail,Razli Che Razak,Mohd Rafi Yaakob,Mohd Nazri Zakaria,Nadia Hanum,Azyanee Luqman
This preliminary analysis examines mobile marketing usage among Generation Y. This study investigates the level of mobile marketing usage among Gen Y and to identify the relationships between attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, perce... see more
Zahaira Fabiola González Romo,Ruth Contreras-Espinosa,irene García Medina
Apps are of great interest and curiosity for the users of mobile phones, being already highly unloaded and used for the users of smartphones.The fashion mobile applications represent only a fraction of the mobile global applications (almost 0,2 %), nevert... see more
Markos Mentzelopoulos,Jeffrey Ferguson,Aristidis Protopsaltis
The use of perceptual inputs is an emerging area within HCI that suggests a developing Perceptual User Interface (PUI) that may prove advantageous for those involved in mobile serious games and immersive social network environments. Since there are a larg... see more
Reinhard Bernsteiner,Dietmar Kilian,Bernd Ebersberger
In the resent years two trends have influenced our daily life: mobile devices and cloud based services. Complex enterprise systems have been moved to the cloud. The integration of mobile devices and cloud based enterprise applications offers new possibili... see more
Paul D Hatzigiannakoglou,Maria T Kampouraki
BrailleOne is a mobile application designed to provide blind and visually-impaired Braille readers with an accessible keyboard for manual text input on their Android smartphones or tablets. Its purpose is to make use of adolescents and young adults’ excit... see more