The biggest mobile technology showcase of the year wrapped up in Barcelona yesterday. We took a look at some of the highlights.
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Articles on Mobile apps
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As businesses’ branded mobile apps become more common and popular, how are they affecting shoppers’ buying habits?
Why do tech companies care so much about self-driving cars? If drivers no longer need to pay attention to the road, they can use their mobile devices even more.
Dating apps have changed the way people present themselves. Visual cues and short 100 word bios are the new currency of dating.
Watching how people play a game against a computer opponent can help identify how humans use – or don’t use – game theory principles to make decisions.
For decades, parents have fretted over ‘screen time,’ limiting the hours their children spend looking at a screen. But as times change, so does media… and how parents should (or shouldn’t) regulate it.
When smartphone apps get permission to access your location or other activity, they often share that data with other companies that can compile digital profiles on users.
While Apple Pay may have won the battle against some of Australia’s banks, it may lose the war against the providers of digital wallets, such as Tencent and Alibaba.
The best way to protect a presidential device is to keep it off the internet altogether. If that’s not going to happen, how else can such a sensitive gadget be kept safe?
Using sensors on smartphones and smartwatches can shed light on patients’ symptoms of depression, even identifying ones they didn’t notice or share with counselors.
The more often Americans used their phones to obtain information, the less they trusted strangers. How can this be, and what does it mean?
Roads versus public transport: for decades, these have been the battle lines in debates over transport in our cities. But a revolution in mobility is under way that will transform our thinking.
Involving the public in data collection - through crowd sourcing - to produce critical public services such as maps and transit apps helps build new conversations on how the system can be improved.
The minds of Pokemon trainers have been manipulated using basic behavioural science.
What research into game play and human interaction can tell us about why the newest mobile game craze is attracting so many different people to play.
Companies are excellent at offering apps and services in exchange for users’ data. This approach can also be a big boost to scholarly research.
Analyzing electronic data from many doctors’ experiences with many patients, we can move ever closer to answering the age-old question: what is truly best for each patient?
We have come to see being digitally connected as part of the fabric of life in the city, but staying connected is a daily struggle for the marginalised and homeless.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
The data tell the story: mobile ads work.
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Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of IT, Southern Cross University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
