Could WiFi and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) signals be harming bunches of grapes? In 2016, a research team from Jadavpur University and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research performed a set of experiments (both practical and computer-modeled) to find out. Some background : “Number of wireless communication towers in India is […]
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Phantom Phone Sensations (update)
Following our earlier article regarding Phantom Phone Sensations (i.e. the sensation that one’s phone is ringing when in reality isn’t) we can now draw attention to a more recent research project from professor Robert Rosenberger of the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy, Atlanta, US. He writes, in Computers in Human Behavior, 52 […]
Intimacy and Smartphone Multitasking—A New Oxymoron?
If you are sometimes tempted to ask “What is the relationship between smartphone multitasking and romantic intimacy?” may we recommend a paper in Psychological Reports, August 5, 2016, entitled : Intimacy and Smartphone Multitasking—A New Oxymoron? “This research suggests that smartphone multitasking has a negative association with face-to-face interactions. People should attend to the costs […]
Determinants of Phantom Phone Sensations (PPSs)
Do you own a mobile phone? Do you sometimes think there’s a call when actually there isn’t? If so, that might well be a Phantom Phone Sensation (PPS). Leading, perhaps, to the question :’What are the determinants of phantom phone sensations?’ These (fairly) ubiquitous phenomena have been formally investigated by a research team at the […]
Why do people say where they are during mobile phone calls? (Laurier #1 of 4)
These clips by UK comedian / journalist Dominic John Romulus ‘Dom’ Joly might suggest, to some, the question : “Why do people say where they are during mobile phone calls?” For answers, or at least steps towards answers, see a key paper in Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, volume 19(4) pages 485-504, by […]
Side-bias in Smartphone Selfies
This study reveals that smartphone self-portraits may perhaps reveal something about left and right, maybe: “Self-Portraits: Smartphones Reveal a Side Bias in Non-Artists,” Nicola Bruno [pictured here, and who also recently did a study on an effect of red] and Marco Bertamini, PLoS ONE, 8(2), 2013, e55141. The authors, at the Universita di Parma, Italy and the University […]