Smart Mobility: Understanding Handheld Device Adoption

Abstract

In recent years, the mobile in one’s pocket has become a multifunctional device and is no longer a device used just for making calls or sending text messages. People make use of their mobiles either to take pictures and videos, or to play games or to listen to music. An increasing number of people today have an autonomous Internet connection and they get online using a mobile device to share text, image, games, or applications as new applications are constantly being available. Mobile computing devices including smart phones provide us the capability to access information/make calls and interact using communication methods that can be insecure also. Moreover, redesigning smart phones resulted in a technology that can keep us involved for most of the time and also oblivious to events around us. In this paper, we will cover how mobility in terms of smart phones evolved, its effects on our lives: both positive and negative, various users of mobility and its benefits to casual users, professional users, and transactional users. Then, we will cover effects of mobility on human wellness and existence & solutions for it, security threats to mobility along with future of mobilization with reference to need of mobile cloud. This paper investigates the usage patterns of various mobility devices. We have taken a dataset of 300 people of different countries from UCI repository and analyzed various important patterns of the available smart mobility devices. To sum up, smart phones are remarkably affecting in both positive and negative ways in our world. Since all smart phones are improvising in technical specifications, we have to redesign future smart phones by reducing the negatives and increasing the positive impacts on the globe.