We provided a group of older people and their care managers with touch tablet devices (iPads), and a new iPad application (‘Enmesh’ – Engagement through Media Sharing), which was purpose-built for this study. Participants used the Enmesh application to exchange photographs and messages. By creating and sharing content, the older people in our study were...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (the ACMA) has been monitoring trends in mobile broadband, potential spectrum availability and the impact on spectrum demand. Our May 2011 discussion paper, Towards 2020—Future spectrum requirements for mobile broadband, identified the need for a strategy to manage the expected spectrum requirements of mobile broadband services. In Towards 2020...

Children who know how to use a mobile phone, as opposed to those who don’t, are more likely to move about their neighbourhood without adult supervision, research from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) suggests. The study, by ACER Research Fellow Ms Catherine Underwood, examined the extent to which knowing how to use a...

Many workers who are given mobile phones and laptops by their employer feel obliged to work overtime, new research by The Australia Institute reveals. The research on the increasingly blurry boundary between work and life was conducted for national Go Home On Time day.

This paper is based on the observation that mobile phone technology will become the preferred platform for enabling an aging population to live independently for longer in their own home. The paper draws upon research into the understanding of the diverse attitudes and backgrounds of older people that informs prediction of adoption of these technologies.