Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). "November 2008." Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-96). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Psychology. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis will bring up whether responsive navigations is useful and which strategies users might have when they browse on a mobile website. The purpose is to shed some light on the subject of responsive navigations that it is something one need to take a closer look at. It plays an important role when you develop responsive websites. In this thesis there will be a study with experimental elements. The participants are going to test a few types of menus that is available on responsive mobile sites today. The participants in the study will also be part of a short interview after they have completed the study. The result shows that users have different strategies when they are on a mobile website. There were for example some who wanted filters that made it easier to find on the website. It also shows that the websites that are in this study have some problems that you as user come across when you visit the site. In the conclusion you can see that there are a few things you need to consider when one creates a website for mobile phones. There are some theories that indicates that the website needs to be obvious in how you use it. / I det här arbetet kommer det att tas upp hurvida responsiva navigeringar är användbara och vilka strategier användare kan tänkas ha när de surfar på en webbsida i mobilen. Syftet är att belysa ämnet responsiva navigeringar att det är något man behöver titta närmare på då det är en viktig del i att utveckla responsiva webbsidor. I arbetet så kommer det att genomföras en studie med experimentellt inslag där deltagarna ska testa några av de menytyper som finns på responsiva mobilsidor idag. Deltagarna i studien ska även få vara med på en kort intervju efter de har genomfört studien. Resultatet visar på att användare har olika strategier när de är inne på en mobil webbsida. Som till exempel fanns det de som ville ha filterfunktioner som gjorde det lättare att hitta. Det visar även på att de webbsidor som är med i studien har vissa problem som man stöter på som användare när man besöker den. I slutsatsen kan man se att det finns en del att tänka på när man skapar webbsidor för mobiler och att det finns teorier som pekar på att sidan behöver vara tydlig i hur man använder den.

M. Tech. Business Administration / In April 2014, ICASA, South Africa's communications regulator, reduced mobile termination rates (i.e. tariffs mobile service providers can charge for terminating calls on each other's networks) from 40 cents to 20 cents per minute. Furthermore, mobile number portability has enhanced mobility of subscribers across networks. Mobile number portability means that subscribers can switch mobile network service providers without changing their mobile number despite it being issued by the network they are leaving. The price war amongst service providers means that all mobile network operators offer mobile voice calls and access to mobile data at comparable rates. There is now little differentiation between mobile network service providers, and mobile network service providers have to seek other sources of sustainable competitive advantage. It is against this background that the purpose of this research is to measure South African mobile phone consumers' perceptions and expectations of the service provided by mobile network service providers.

Thesis (MTech. degree in Business Information Systems.)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2011. / This dissertation argues that the use of mobile phones can offer opportunities for local governments and municipalities to effectively render services to citizens in ways that traditional mechanisms, such as vending points, cannot achieve. The empirical evidence has shown that mobile phones could be ideal for improving accessibility of prepaid electricity voucher services notably to consumers in the rural areas. The study utilized a case study using the Thulamela and Makhado municipalities. Informed by the case study, a model for improved accessibility of electricity prepaid vouchers was conceptualized.

Thesis (MTech. degree in Business Information Systems.)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2012. / This mini-dissertation describes opportunities to use mobile phones as interactive learning tools. Anecdotal evidence shows that almost all undergraduate students at the Tshwane University of Technology have mobile phones, while on the contrary, only a small percentage have access to a personal computer, let alone access to resources. Interaction between the lecturer and the students is low, communication after lecturing hours is difficult and access to additional or just-in-time learning material is limited to hand-outs given during a formal class period. The challenge is that interaction between lecturers and students is limited to formal learning spaces and times, e.g., lecture rooms and laboratories. Nevertheless, learning is not confined to formal spaces and times. In this mini-dissertation the focus is, on how a mobile phone can be used to provide access to learning material, provide last minute or just-in-time information and improve the communication between lecturer and student, outside of the formal class time and space.

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Η Τηλεϊατρική τα τελευταία χρόνια αναπτύσσεται ραγδαία. Η άσκηση και η παροχή ιατρικών υπηρεσιών από απόσταση με τη χρήση της πληροφορικής και των τηλεπικοινωνιακών τεχνολογιών μπορεί να αποβεί σωτήρια για την ανθρώπινη ζωή, κυρίως σε περιπτώσεις απομονωμένων περιοχών (π.χ. νησιά, ορεινά χωριά), όπου η πρόσβαση σε ιατρικές υπηρεσίες είναι χρονοβόρα ή ακόμη και ανέφικτη. Ισχυρές γλώσσες προγραμματισμού, όπως η JavaME, οι οποίες υποστηρίζονται από τα σύγχρονα κινητά τηλέφωνα, δίδουν τη δυνατότητα σχεδιασμού και ανάπτυξης χρήσιμων εφαρμογών Τηλεϊατρικής. Στην παρούσα εργασία θα παρουσιαστεί η τεχνογνωσία που απαιτείται προκειμένου να μετατραπεί το κινητό τηλέφωνο σε μια συσκευή καταγραφής, επεξεργασίας, απεικόνισης και αποστολής του ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφικού σήματος. Tο ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφικό σήμα μετατρέπεται σε ηχητικό, μέσω της διαμόρφωσης εύρους, προκειμένου να αναγνωρισθεί από το κινητό τηλέφωνο και έπειτα μετατρέπεται πάλι σε ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφικό, μέσω της αποδιαμόρφωσης, προκειμένου να απεικονισθεί και να επεξεργαστεί περαιτέρω από το κινητό τηλέφωνο. Τέλος, θα παρουσιαστεί το αντίστοιχο λογισμικό που κατασκευάστηκε ώστε να επιτελεσθούν οι παραπάνω λειτουργίες. / Telemedicine is being rapidly developed. Practice and provision of medical services from distance via the use of information and telecommunication technology can prove lifesaving, especially in cases of isolated places (i.e. islands, mountainous villages), where access to medical services is time-consuming or infeasible. Powerful programming languages, such as JavaME, which are supported by the modern mobile phones, gives the possibility for designing and developing of useful telemedicine applications. In this thesis, it will be presented the know-how that is required in order to transform the mobile phone into a device able to capture, process, display and transmit the electrocardiographic signal. The electrocardiographic signal is transformed into a sound signal, through modulation, with a view to be recognizable by the mobile phone and then it is transformed again into an electrocardiographic signal, through demodulation, with a view to be further processed by the mobile phone. Also, it will be presented the software that has built so as to carry out these functions.

Tidigare studier har indikerat att extroverta personer använder mobiltelefoni mer än vad introverta personer gör (Inyang et al. 2010). En enkätstudie genomfördes för att testa sambandet mellan personlighetstyp och huruvida en frekvenspreferens gällande brukandet av mobiltelefoni eller portabelt ljud förelåg. Hundra stycken deltagare svarade på enkäten som bestod av tre delar. Fyra hypoteser var formulerade; extroverta förutspåddes vara flitigare brukare av mobiltelefon än introverta, medan introverta förutspåddes vara flitigare i brukandet av portabelt ljud. Personer med social fobi förutspåddes använda mindre mobiltelefoni, men mer portabelt ljud, än personer utan social fobi. Neurotiker förutspåddes använda portabelt ljud i större utsträckning än de brukar mobiltelefoni. En skillnad förutspåddes finnas mellan män och kvinnor gällande användande av mobiltelefoni och portabelt ljud. Resultaten visade inte på något samband mellan extraversion eller social fobi och användningsfrekvens gällande mobiltelefon, eller portabelt ljud vilket inte stöder hypotesen, däremot så fanns ett samband mellan neuroticism och användningsfrekvens vilket delvis stöder hypotesen och förövrigt indikerar resultaten att kvinnor jämfört med män föredrar mobiltelefon framför portabelt ljud i detta avseende. / Previous studies have indicated that extroverts use mobile cell phones more than introverts (Inyang et al. 2010). A survey was carried out to test the relationship between personality type and frequency preference for mobile cell phones and portable sound use. A hundred individuals participated in the survey containing three parts of questions. It was predicted that extroverts will be more active users of mobile phones than introverts, while introverts were predicted to be more active users of portable sound. People with social phobia were predicted to use less of mobile telephony, but more of portable sound, than people lacking social phobia. Neurotics were predicted to use less of mobile telephony, but more of portable sound, than non-neuritics. A gender effect was also predicted. The result did not show any relation between extraversion or social fobia, and mobile phone or portable sound usage, which doesn’t support the hypothesis, on the other hand a relation between neuroticism and mobile phone usage and portable sound usage was supported and women compared to men were also shown to prefer mobile phone to portable sound.