Mobile Phone Behavior

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the newly-emerging science of mobile phone behavior. It presents the unexpected complexity of human mobile phone behavior through four basic aspects of mobile phone usage (users, technologies, activities, and effects), and then explores four major domains of such behavior (medicine, business, education, and everyday life). Chapters open with thoughts on mobile phone usage and behavior from interviews with cell phone users, then present a series of scientific studies, synthesized knowledge, and real-life cases, concluding with complex but highly readable analyses of each aspect of mobile phone behavior. Readers should achieve two intellectual goals: gaining a usable knowledge of the complexity of mobile phone behaviour, and developing the skills to analyze the complexity of mobile phone usage - and further technological behaviors.

1. The science of mobile phone behavior; 2. Mobile phone users; 3. Mobile phone technologies; 4. Mobile phone activities; 5. Mobile phone effects; 6. Mobile phone behavior in medicine; 7. Mobile phone behaviors in business; 8. Mobile phone behavior in education; 9. Mobile phone behavior in daily life; 10. The complexity of mobile phone behaviors.

Zheng Yan is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the State University of New York, Albany. He has a doctoral degree from Harvard University and previously lectured at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His previous publications include the Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior (2012) and Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (2015), and he has been a co-editor of the International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning since 2012.