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With the increasing use of smartphones in our lives, technoference has become a new threat to family relationships and child development. The present study explored the impact of technoference in conjugal interactions on child smartphone dependence a...

The widespread adoption of the smartphone has led to both positive and negative consequences for adolescents’ mental health. This study examines the interplay between smartphone dependence (SPD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and various...

Suicide is a leading cause of death during adolescence, and both smartphone dependence and poor sleep have been associated with suicidal ideation. However, it remains unclear whether these associations reflect stable differences between adolescents o...

Parental phubbing behavior is a significant predictor of adolescent smartphone dependence. However, previous research has mainly focused on the child and adolescent’s perspective, overlooking potential differences in how parents and their child...

Distracted driving is an important risk factor for traffic accidents. In particular, smartphone use while driving has become the leading cause of distraction in recent years, with the advent of smartphones and their extended functions. One noteworthy...

This study aimed to identify the level of mothers’ smartphone dependency and determine its correlation with preschoolers’ problem behavior and emotional intelligence. From 1 November to 30 December 2020, 141 mothers of preschool children...

A paucity of research has addressed the relationship between each psychological construct of playfulness and smartphone dependency, and the purpose of this research is to understand how each psychological construct of playfulness, including physical...

Given the prevalence and undesirable consequences of smartphone dependency among adolescents, it is necessary to explore the influencing factors of adolescent smartphone dependency. The aim of this study was to examine the intergenerational transmiss...

The phenomenon of adolescents engaging in less physical activity as they age raises several concerns. Among these, we hypothesized that this trend may negatively impact their mental health and smartphone dependency. Thus, the aim of this study was to...

Smartphones are indeed becoming an essential tool in the daily lives and relations of their users in recent years, thanks to their uses and potential. However, excessive and inappropriate use can lead to dependence syndromes. The objectives of our st...

This study examined the moderating and mediating effects of ego-resilience, parenting behaviour, and peer attachment on the relationship between smartphone dependency and aggression. Participants included 1863 middle school youths who used smartphone...

The purpose of this study was to identify the association between physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), satisfaction with sleep fatigue recovery (SSFR), and smartphone dependency in South Korean adults. We analyzed data from the National H...

This study explores the efficacy of integrating stroboscopic glasses with smartphone-based applications to evaluate postural control, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional forceplate technology. Athletes, particularly those with visual...

Here, we describe a multianalyte biosensor platform for the fluorescent analysis of different human state biomarkers (α-amylase, phenylalanine, glucose, lactate/pyruvate, alcohol) and some immunosuppressive drugs (cyclosporine A, tacrolimus, me...

The goal of this study was to develop a framework to classify dependence in ambulation by employing a deep model in a 3D convolutional neural network (3D-CNN) using video data recorded by a smartphone during inpatient rehabilitation therapy in stroke...

Objective: This study aimed to explore the associations between smartphone overdependence (smartphone addiction) and suicidal ideation and attempts among Korean adolescents to acknowledge the risk of smartphone overuse. Methods: Data were obtained fr...

In this paper, we study the temperature- and emission wavelength-dependent time responses of previously reported precursor-driven Eu²⁺- and Dy³⁺-doped strontium-aluminate phosphors to create unique luminescent anti-counterfeiting tags suitable for de...

Technological addiction refers to behavior characterized by excessive and prolonged use of technological devices; reactions of anger, frustration, or panic when unable to use them; and unsuccessful attempts to reduce the time spent on them [...]

This cross-sectional study identified the association between COVID-19-related perceived household financial decline and smartphone dependency among adolescents in South Korea. Data from the 2020 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of Korea was used and 54,80...

Background/Objectives: Nomophobia, the irrational fear of being without a mobile phone, is increasingly prevalent among university students and has emerged as a concerning form of digital dependence. Among nursing students, this condition is particul...

Background: In recent years, the abusive use of the smartphone has reached a situation that could be considered pathological. In this sense, different instruments to assess this problematic use or addiction to the smartphone are used. One of these in...

Smartphone-holder use during motorcycling is increasingly common, but its task-dependent ergonomic effects remain insufficiently understood. This study examined visual, postural, and muscular responses during smartphone-holder use under a simulated r...

Background: Smartphones and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) are increasingly integrated into everyday life, influencing information access, digital interaction, and cognitive tasks. While problematic smartphone use and cognitive offloading...

Showrooming is an increasingly popular behaviour in the omnichannel era. The purpose of this paper is to understand the consumer intention to showroom through a technology acceptance and use model based on UTAUT2 that includes value consciousness and...

Background: Smartphones are ubiquitous among young adults today. However, many young adults exhibit characteristics of problematic or dependent phone use. These individuals often have sleep disturbances and difficulties with emotional regulation. Cur...

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between the risk of smartphone dependence, mental health, and personality traits in university students using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF), an...

Smartphones have become the primary devices for accessing the online world. The potential for smartphone use to become problematic has come into increasing focus. Students and young adults have been shown to use their smartphones at high rates and ma...

The growing use of smartphones has been pointed out as one of the main reasons for the decrease in children’s outdoor time. However, there is still a gap in our understanding of how smartphone use affects children’s outdoor experiences and activities...

Toddlers come into contact with smartphones by the time they are 10 months old, and smartphones eventually become a part of the daily lives of toddlers because they are used as parenting tools and are also attractive toys. Routine exposure to these e...

Compared to high-cost hardware-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning techniques, smartphone-based precise positioning technology plays an important role in applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Since Google released...

Determining the current position in a forest is essential for many applications and is often carried out using smartphones. Modern smartphones now support various GNSS constellations and multi-frequency analyses, which are expected to provide more ac...

Internet-enabled smartphones are increasingly ubiquitous in the Western world. Research suggests a number of problems can result from mobile phone overuse, including dependence, dangerous and prohibited use. For over a decade, this has been measured...

The new generation of Android smartphones is equipped with GNSS chips capable of tracking multi-frequency and multi-constellation data. In this work, we evaluate the positioning performance and analyze the quality of observations collected by three r...

In recent years, sensors in smartphones have been widely used in applications, e.g., human activity recognition (HAR). However, the power of smartphone constrains the applications of HAR due to the computations. To combat it, energy efficiency should...

Smartphone technology is rapidly evolving, adding sensors of growing accuracy and precision. Structural engineers are among customers who indirectly benefit from such technological advances. This paper tests whether accelerometers installed in new ge...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between smartphone addiction and sleep satisfaction in 54,948 Korean adolescents. This study utilized the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (KYRBS). The dependent variable was sleep s...

In order to overcome the limitations of traditional stochastic models for smartphones, we introduce a double-difference code pseudorange residual (DDPR)-dependent stochastic model based on an optimal satellite subset, with the goal of mitigating the...

The purpose of this study was to categorize subjective perceptions of smartphone app use among mothers with young children, derive characteristics of each perception type, and interpret the findings to determine appropriate smartphone use for each pe...

Background: Smartphone addiction among children and adolescents has a negative effect, as excessive use of smartphones can cause physical symptoms, such as fatigue, indigestion, and sleep problems, as well as psychopathological problems, such as depr...

Smartphone camera or inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor-based systems can be independently used to provide accurate indoor positioning results. However, the accuracy of an IMU-based localization system depends on the magnitude of sensor errors th...

Background: The pervasiveness of smartphones has raised concerns about an increase in the prevalence of problematic smartphone use (PSU), which depends on a set of psychological and behavioral risk factors. Previous research has yielded mixed results...

Traditionally, an elevation-angle-dependent weighting method is usually used for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning with a geodetic receiver. As smartphones adopt linearly polarized antenna and low-cost GNSS chips, different GNSS o...

Forest leaf area index (LAI) is a key characteristic affecting a field canopy microclimate. In addition to traditional professional measuring instruments, smartphone-based methods have been used to measure forest LAI. However, when smartphone methods...

As smartphones become widespread, a variety of smartphone applications are being developed. This paper proposes a method for indoor localization (i.e., positioning) that uses only smartphones, which are general-purpose mobile terminals, as reference...

Dew computing aims to minimize the dependency on remote clouds by exploiting nearby nodes for solving non-trivial computational tasks, e.g., AI inferences. Nowadays, smartphones are good candidates for computing nodes; hence, smartphone clusters have...

The tracking of satellite signals with the passive linearly polarized embedded global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna of smartphones in dynamic scenarios is susceptible to the changing multipath and obstructions in urban environments, whic...

Passengers commute between different modes of transportation in traffic hubs, and passenger localization is a key component for the effective functioning of these spaces. The smartphone-based localization system presented in this work is based on the...

The use of smartphones is widespread among adolescents and can affect various cognitive processes. However, the effects of smartphone use on sensory processing, particularly among individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), rema...

SmartRoadSense is a crowdsensing project aimed at monitoring the conditions of the road surface. Using the sensors of a smartphone, SmartRoadSense monitors the vertical accelerations inside a vehicle traveling the road and extracts a roughness index...

The past two decades have witnessed controversy over whether the use of digital technology has damaged or enhanced adolescents’ social relationships, which influences their development. In this study, we addressed this debate by specifying the...