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Regular practice of gratitude has the potential to enhance psychological wellbeing and foster stronger social connections among young adults. However, there is a lack of research investigating user needs and expectations regarding gratitude-promoting ...

The transportation sector plays a vital role in the economic development of many countries, particularly low-income ones. In Bangladesh, the vast network of rivers and waterways makes boats the most accessible and cost-effective mode of transportation. ...

A variety of reviews have indicated the effectiveness of smartphone-based interventions in preventing secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, few studies have focused on clinical outcomes.

Digitalisation has led to many innovations and is also perceived as an instrument of customers' satisfaction. The objective of this study was to determine the digital attributes that increase consumer demand for the mobile money (MoMo) product in the Buea ...

The lives of informal caregivers can get so busy and overwhelmed that they stop caring for themselves. A simple daily mobile phone reminder may be enough to restore some of their self-care. In this study, we explore the effects of reminders in the ...

This German online study (N = 665) examines the influence of voice control usage on emotional aspects of mobile phone user experience. Frequent use of voice control is associated with both positive and, with limitations, also negative emotions towards ...

Existing designs helping people manage their social media use include: 1) external supports that monitor and limit use; 2) internal supports that change the interface itself. Here, we design and deploy Chirp, a mobile Twitter client, to independently ...

We contribute a detailed investigation of AR-enhanced widgets for smartphones, where AR technology is not only used to offload widgets from the phone to the air around it, but to give users more control on input precision as well. Such widgets have the ...

Emotional appraisal is a core aspect of user experience. This study examines whether frequency of mobile phone use can have an impact on emotional aspects of mobile phone user experience. It also comments on the role of interpersonal communication for ...

There is a vision for smartphone-based medical tricorders, in which a software application can be downloaded to smartphones around the world in people's pockets to use for medical sensing at the point of care. The power of this vision is that a quick ...

With the development of the world, people rely on their mobile phone to get information in spite of that most of the information are fragmented. So many people can not get the whole picture. This research aims to develop a mobile learning system in ...

Smartphone touch screens are potentially attractive for interaction in virtual reality (VR). However, the user cannot see the phone or their hands in a fully immersive VR setting, impeding their ability for precise touch input. We propose mounting a ...

Self-care apps offer a wide variety of different therapy paradigms, pedagogies and concepts for people to maintain and make sense of their mental health. However, as human-made artefacts, these apps are being imbued with their designers’ interests, ...

Crowdsourcing enables the completion of large-scale and hard-to-automate tasks, while allowing people to earn money. However, 3.6 billion people – a workforce comprising 46.4% of the world population – who could benefit most from this source of income ...

This study highlights differences in how mobile, portable, and fixed forms of information and communication technology (ICT) use support bonding and bridging forms of social capital. Results from a two-wave longitudinal panel survey revealed that dominant ...

Recent research has made great progress in realizing neural style transfer of images, which denotes transforming an image to a desired style. Many users start to use their mobile phones to record their daily life, and then edit and share the captured ...

The developments in Information and Communication Technology transformed almost every aspect of everyday life. Modern societies are now fully dependent on ICT for commercial, labor, and leisure activities, excluding in the voting area. Using ICT for ...

As the capabilities of mobile phones have increased, the potential of their negative use has also increased tremendously. For example, use of mobile phones while driving or in high-security zones can lead to accidents, information leaks and security ...

Information and Communication Technology interventions have the potential to improve outcomes in health and other development sectors in low-income settings. Large-scale impact, however, remains the central challenge for the HCI4D community as ...

We present a study of long-term outdoor activities, based on altogether 34 interviews with 19 participants. Our goal was not only to explore these enjoyable experiences, but more broadly to examine how technology use was recontextualized 'away' from the ...