Road safety campaigns targeting mobile phone use among drivers should emphasise how perceived social pressure is not an acceptable excuse for engaging in the behaviour.
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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.
Should police be able to use cellphone records to track suspects – and law-abiding citizens?
Dating apps have changed the way people present themselves. Visual cues and short 100 word bios are the new currency of dating.
Beware unicycling clowns …
New research shows that families in Japan and the US struggle in very similar ways with how technology is affecting their lives, their relationships and each other.
Sick of your phone dying? There are simple ways to extend the life of your phone’s battery.
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.
What do traditional Maasai people use mobile phones for?
We don’t just hold our phones, we cradle them – and make films like this one with them.
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.
You’re four times as likely to have an accident while talking on the phone while driving – even hands free.
Mobile phones are often touted as technology that can help bring economic benefits to the poor. But the benefits to those living in rural and remote areas without other infrastructure are limited.
Technology designed to keep mobile phones connected during a natural disaster could have wider uses in regional australia.
Studies suggest electrosensitivity is a “communicated” disease, spread by people hearing about the alleged dangers, and sometimes worrying themselves sick.
You can learn a lot about the movement of people and animals if you tap into the tracking data from many of today’s mobile phones.
As searches of smartphones and other digital devices at US borders become more common, can research and computer science help protect travelers’ privacy?
Nokia’s decision to revise an old mobile phone classic should appeal to a movement of people who prefer to play with the older technologies.
Rumours have emerged that Nokia will relaunch a version of one of the best-selling phones of all time.
The scientific evidence is surprising – and terrifying.
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Director Radiation Research and Advice, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, The Open University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University