Mobile Phone Behavior

This survey introduces the science of mobile phone behavior - how mobile phones are used and how their use influences humans.

Mobile phone use is ubiquitous worldwide, and as a result, researchers in ergonomics, medicine, communication, sociology, education, psychology, and various other disciplines have been extensively examining how people use mobile phones and how mobile phone use influences humans' lives. This book is intended to serve as a survey of the field.This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the newly-emerging science of mobile phone behavior. It presents the unexpected complexity of human mobile phone behavior through four basic aspects of mobile phone usage (users, technologies, activities, and effects), and then explores four major domains of such behavior (medicine, business, education, and everyday life). Chapters open with thoughts on mobile phone usage and behavior from interviews with cell phone users, then present a series of scientific studies, synthesized knowledge, and real-life cases, concluding with complex but highly readable analyses of each aspect of mobile phone behavior. Readers should achieve two intellectual goals: gaining a usable knowledge of the complexity of mobile phone behaviour, and developing the skills to analyze the complexity of mobile phone usage - and further technological behaviors.