| Paper title: |
Examining Adoption of Mobile Devices and Applications among College Students in Romania |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4316/JACSM.201902003 |
| Published in: | Issue 2, (Vol. 13) / 2019 |
| Publishing date: | 2019-12-16 |
| Pages: | 19-24 |
| Author(s): | MICAN Daniel |
| Abstract. | The number of mobile users has grown rapidly and continues to grow globally. In the literature, countless studies have been conducted on the influence of mobile devices on everyday life. To bring our contribution in this field, we conducted an empirical study with students from the Romanian university environment. The study investigated the influence of mobile devices, the way of communication, the categories of applications used and the frequency of use. Moreover, a series of correlations between variables have been tested, and the most relevant and statistically significant are presented in the article |
| Keywords: | Mobile Devices, Mobile Applications, Behavior Analysis |
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