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Articles on Smartphone apps
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App developers deploy three key tricks to make you a more loyal and proactive user.
Today's smartphones have the technology to help you take amazing photographs – so long as you do it right.
Experts describe their research into how smartphones collect and share private personal information with tracking companies and advertisers.
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
Technology could be a promising alternative to traditional therapy.
Apps that seamlessly combine all our travel options could be the most significant transport innovation since the automobile, but early trials show government policy support is vital to make MaaS work.
Smartphones are key elements of two-factor authentication processes. Weakening their security threatens people's digital identities.
In most developing countries hearing services are not available at primary healthcare clinics and those who need it the most are not screened for hearing loss.
Why we love our phones so much might be related to our basic yearnings as human beings, explains a scholar, who is also a pastor.
Smart appliances, which let you control lights and power outlets via your phone, promise to cut energy bills. But research suggests these gadgets are confusing, and can just as easily raise power use.
The iPhone changed the game not because of the technical details of the device, but rather as a result of its creators' imagination and courage.
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.
Developers working on apps to help monitor and improve our health could accidentally find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
How we use our smartphone can say a lot about our behaviour. But can such tech be trusted to track our mental health?
You might worry that people care more about what's on their smartphone than what's in their local wildlife park. But what if we could get them to care about both at the same time?
What if the most interesting thing the Pokémon Go phenomenon offered was where it leads you?
Pokémon's new augmented reality app reveals the challenges we'll face when robots and other autonomous technologies become commonplace.
With an estimated 100,000 health and fitness apps available, it seems there is an app for everything – from tracking your bowel movements to practising your pimple-popping technique.
If you use one of the many apps to map your walking, jogging or cycling route then you could be giving away information that could be abused by others.
Top contributors
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Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Quality of life researcher and occupational therapist, The University of Queensland
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ARC Australian Laureate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash Univesity, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Faculty Associate in Elementary Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Senior Lecturer in Agr-Business, Newcastle University
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Teaching Fellow (Integrated Care), University of Surrey
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Senior teaching fellow, University of Surrey
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PhD, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Information Technology and Professor of Marketing, New York University
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Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia
