Mobile technology consumption opportunities and challenges /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Ciaramitaro, Barbara.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
• Subjects: Mobile communication systems.; Mobile computing.; Technological innovations > Social aspects.; eMaintenance; Social and political movement; Mobile augmented reality; Mobile education; Mobile government; Mobile healthcare; Mobile marketing; Mobile security; Next generation multimedia; Embedded mobile; RFID
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"This book explores essential questions related to the cost, benefit, individual and social impact, and security risks associated with the rapid consumption of mobile technology, covering the current state of mobile technologies and their use in various domains including education, healthcare,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to mobile technologies / Barbara L. Ciaramitaro
• 2. Mobile education / Ariel Velikovsky
• 3. Mobile handheld devices in education / Douglas Blakemore and David Svacha
• 4. Mobile marketing / Barbara L. Ciaramitaro
• 5. Mobile government and defense / Jim Jones
• 6. Mobile healthcare: challenges and opportunities / Ade Bamigboye
• 7. mHealth: mobile healthcare / Barbara L. Ciaramitaro and Marilyn Skrocki
• 8. Potentials and challenges of mobile augmented reality / Joerg H. Kloss
• 9. The use of embedded mobile, RFID, and augmented reality in mobile devices / Greg Gogolin
• 10. The impact of mobility on social and political movement / Nabil Harfoush
• 11. Next generation multimedia on mobile devices / Mikel Zorrilla ... [et al.]
• 12. Transforming eMaintenance into iMaintenance with mobile communications technologies and handheld devices / Nalin Sharda
• 13. Mobile security / Barbara L. Ciaramitaro.