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This paper seeks to describe how the special built‐in features of modern smart phones can be used to open up the potential of these devices for use as assistive technologies in supporting the independence and quality of life of vulnerable people.
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... can be run either using the web to provide real-time information and date or, independently in a standalone mode and in locations where communications are not available -an important factor when limitations of coverage are considered (see below). Some of the features of smart phones are shown in Table 1 to which other sensors and technologies (such as near field communications) will also become standard shortly. Sales of smart phones across the world had exceeded 400 million by the second half of 2010 with a near 100% year on year increase, and quickly approaching a point where one in five new mobile phones can be described as "smart" using the definition provided above. ...
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... Content of mobile apps study was done to understand what consumers want (Victoria Magrath and Helen McCormick, 2013).Earlier there has been various research carried out focusing on media and the entertainment industry. The future of media and industry (Parker,2004;Berman,2004), various business models for emerging media and the entertainment industry (Berman, Battino and Feldman,2011), practices of various companies (Dosher and Kleiner,1997), perceptions of mobile phone content and information services (Doherty, Rao and Mackay, 2007), SPAs (smart phone applications)a new form of assistive technology (Doughty, 2011), consumer marketing, innovative mobile marketing via smart phones (Persaud and Azhar,2012) have been studied by different researchers. Mobile phones as innovative tools for Hotels was studied by Kuan-Yu Chen; Yu-Lun Hsu; Chia-Chun Wu., 2012). ...
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