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What is Mobile Phone Behavior Research

Chapter 34
Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
An emerged field of study that has a history of nearly 25 years. It is a multi-domain multi-disciplinary field of research, examining various human behaviors such as m-learning, m-banking, and m-therapy across various disciplines such as psychology, sociology, communication, health, law, business, economics, and political science.
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Mobile Phone Behavior: An Emerged Discipline of Research
Zheng Yan (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) and Quan Chen (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch034
Abstract
Mobile phones are becoming the most ubiquitous technology in the history. Researchers in various disciplines of behavioral sciences have been extensively examining how people use mobile phones and what influences mobile phone use have on people's lives for nearly 25 years. This chapter attempts to provide an overall picture of the science of mobile phone behavior by describing the past, present, and future of this emerged discipline of study in behavioral sciences. It provides a detailed review of five major areas and six specific topics of mobile phone behavior research and a brief outline of three directions of future research.
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