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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"Cell phones"”.
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Tools For School: Student Fluency And Perception Of Cell Phones Used For Learning
… communicates, collaborates, and learns. Improved cell phone capabilities and an ever increasing amount of cell phone applications allow individuals to connect globally and afford almost instantaneous access to information inside and outside the classroom. The majority of students today possesses …
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UNDERSTANDING HOW INTENTIONALLY UNPLUGGING FROM CELL PHONES SHAPES INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
… Unplugged Students—to intentionally use their cell phones less and how they understood the impact that unplugging had on their interpersonal relationships and college experience. Nine undergraduate college students from four private schools were interviewed in one-on-one semi- structured …
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The silent frontier: deaf people and their social use of cell phones in Cape Town
… ways in which the Deaf negotiate and embrace the cell phone socially. The Deaf, who can be seen as a linguistic and sensory minority within the predominant hearing society, use the cell phone to negotiate their marginalised position as people living with a hearing impairment. By doing so, the Deaf …
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Copious Electronic Text on Small Screen Interfaces: A New Method of Displaying Text on Cell Phones
… 6 lines of text in rapid sequence on a simulated cell phone display interface, at three speeds. Comprehension of text passages was examined in an attempt to find an ideal method of presenting lengthy text on a small screen interface. The results indicated that as participants were exposed to …
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Use of Cell Phones in Education at King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… Saudi students’ perceptions of the ways in which cell phones can be used in learning and teaching as well as the obstacles that might prevent their use in education. The study also aimed at investigating whether or not there is a gender difference in perceptions of cell phone use and barriers in …
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Online and digital media usage on cell phones among low-income urban youth in Cape Town
Cell phones introduce a range of new possibilities for the use and production of media, for social networking and communication, political activism, and social development. For this study, 441 grade 11 students at nine schools in low-income areas in Cape Town, South Africa were surveyed about their …
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Investigating how women negotiate and navigate relationships through use of cell phones: a case study of Basotho women in Maseru
This study is a guise at how cell phones are becoming power, identity and trend tools, through which women navigate and negotiate intimate relationships, particularly romantic and family relationships. I explore the threads that weave together the materiality of presence, space and the constantly …
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Texting, self, and society
… communicative systems to manage. In our society, cell phones are becoming the primary form of communication for young people. Building a dialogue surrounding new media systems will enhance our observation as the cell phone changes from a practical device to a ritual part of our lives. As children …
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“Can you just put your phone away?”: The effects of cell phone use on face-to-face conflict in romantic relationships
… interactions is by the presence or use of cell phones during conflict interactions. There is empirical evidence for a “mere presence” effect of cell phones on FtF interactions, such that the presence of cell phones is dissatisfying. Existing perspectives also suggest that individuals may be …
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Texting Versus Talking: Age Sex and Extroversion as Predictors of Frequency and Preference Among an Undergraduate Cohort.
… or calling. The study also explores the use of cell phones as a means of avoiding others during co-present interaction. Findings reveal that age is the strongest predictor of text messaging, with younger respondents being more likely to text. The study also finds that women prefer texting, while …
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Digital Receipt System Using Mobile Device Technologies
Cell phones are the most prevalent computing devices. They come pre-loaded with many different functions such as a digital camera, a mobile web browser, a streaming media player, games, GPS navigation, and more. However, if the banks have their way, the cell phone may become the preferred method of …
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Substitution or revolution? : an empirical analysis of the relationship between ICT and protests
Have cell phones and the Internet created a revolution in the way that protests are organized? Or are they merely a substitution for previous methods of communication? The literature on the topic is divided between the cyberphiles, who argue that information and communication technologies (ICTs) …
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MP3 and Culturally Free
… forms of technology used in this study: cell phones, MP3 players, and computers. These ideas were born out of necessity as an educator. Under traditional classroom settings, it was difficult to urge Chinese students to speak. Within the Chinese culture, students were terrified of making …
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Spread spectrum modulation system for burst mode DC-DC converters
… low-power conditions in applications such as cell phones and notebook computers, but often produce noise in the audible range. This thesis explores a frequency modulation scheme and transient control that attenuates audible noise harmonics while minimizing the tradeoff for converter …
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Ringing in the rain : an agent based weather warning system
… multi-agent architecture that uses GPS-enabled cell phones to build a mobile service development framework. The goal of this framework is to build mobile services to deliver timely changes in environmental information that could impact a user's current or future activities. A weather warning …
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The role of heat assisted magnetic recording in future hard disk drive applications
… portable consumer electronics, such as PDAs, cell phones, music players, digital cameras, etc. make a relatively modest but fast growing market for ultrahigh areal density HAMR-based HDDs. HAMR-based HDD for portable applications could very well be a disruptive technology in the magnetic …
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Interact : media informed architecture
… we are in a continuous state of distraction. Our cell phones and MP3 players provide us with a steady stream of information and imagery to deter our mind fro the disruption of advertisements and solicitations surrounding us.This thesis explores the relationship between media and architecture. …
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Position Location of Remote Bluetooth Devices
… Bluetooth devices being put in everything from cell phones to PDAs to laptops, the abuse of this technology could have an even bigger impact than the viruses and malware running rampant on the internet. Bluetooth is a short range wireless technology intended to interconnect consumer electronics …
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Asbestos : operating system security for mobile devices
… allows Asbestos to run on mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. These mobile, wireless-enabled devices are at risk for data attacks because they store private data but often roam in public networks. The Asbestos operating system is designed to prevent disclosure of …
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Addressing Relationships among Moral Judgment Development, Narcissism, and Electronic Media and Communication Devices
… devices (i.e. social networking websites, cell phones, etc.) may have adverse effects social decision-making and self-presentation. The current study, therefore, addresses the relationships among moral judgment development, narcissism, and electronic media and communication devices …
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