THE IMPACT OF SMARTPHONE FOR UTM SPACE STUDENT.

1.0 INTRODUCTION



1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION



A smartphone is a cell phone that allows you to do more than just make phone calls and send text
messages. Smartphones can browse the Internet and run basic software programs like a computer
and the user often interacts with the smartphone by using their finger on the touch screen. There
are thousands of smartphone apps (software programs), including games, personal-use programs,
and business-use programs that can all be run from the phone. Smartphone are everywhere and
mobile learning is emerging as a potential learning environment at the University Technology
Malaysia - School of Professional and Continuing Education (UTM Space). The aim of this
research is to discuss about the impact of Smartphone for UTM Space student.


Like a computer, a Smartphone has an operating system on it, like Windows or Mac OS. The
four most common are iOS (created by Apple), Android (created by Google), Blackberry
(created by Research In Motion), and Windows Phone (created by Microsoft).


Smartphone are increasingly becoming the ever-present penetration and transformation of
everyday social practices and space. Together we are drawn to the learning students outreach
possibilities inherent in smartphones applications such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The
functional value of a smartphone is promoting students consumption in mobile technology and
experience in learning via the smartphone devices. This study examines whether smartphone and
their capabilities are useful for students learning, the impacts on students using mobile phone
capabilities at a certain time, and the learning environment in which students prefer to use them.
The new smartphone functions include camera, computer applications, music player, GPS
(Global Positioning System), and gaming features.
These smartphone are no longer only a tool for communication but a necessary instrument of
individual social and work life. In developed and developing countries most people have adopted
the use of smartphone in learning processes. They are an attractive tool for communication and
interpersonal relations, and have become increasingly used in an educational context. Some
people attempt to seem depressed, lost and isolated without their smartphone. This makes their
daily activities miserable.


Overdependence upon the smartphone is an easy rut to fall into. Since the device can do anything
and everything, after all, why bother using anything else? This is an unhealthy way to consider
the technology available to us; it makes us as people less independent and increasingly reliant on
a technology that could fail at any time. (Source: Tam News Staff on September 30, 2011).
Time can fly away from a person when they are multitasking on their smartphone, flitting from
app to app with a hollow appetite. Multitasking is what the smartphone is designed for, and
multitasking decays the attention span. Boredom is obsolete for the smartphone owner, defeated
by the ability to dart between games and the Internet at the speed of whim. But this isnt
necessarily a good thing boredom was the spark of previous generations ingenuity and
productivity. (Source: Tam News Staff on September 30, 2011)


The smartphone, used without caution and self-awareness, can be the center of a circle of self-
damage, wastefulness, and depersonalization for its owner just as easily as it can be a gateway to
easier living and enlightenment. Without a doubt, the smartphone has great power we just need
to learn the great responsibility that should go with it. (Source: Tam News Staff on September
30, 2011).



Based on analysis, Smartphone will increase or decreased our GPA in university. Overall
conclusion, Smartphone leads high frequency to lower GPA. According to the international
telecommunication union (ITU), mobile devices usage has grown at on amazingly fast rate in
past 10 years. While land-line phone subscription have been declining since 2006. In fact,
mobile-broad subscription have increase almost 5 fold since 2007.(Source : ITU Aggregate
Data).
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM



Students who go to bed constantly checking their smartphones might be negatively affected by
such behavior. New studies by MSU researchers indicated that their performance the next day
could suffer.


After surveying workers among various occupations across two studies, assistant management
professor Russell Johnson and his team report that work-related smartphone use after 9.00PM.
results in mental fatigue and lack of engagement the following day.


Johnson attributed the negative impacts to continual work engagement at a time when one should
relax and prepare for bed. He said detaching from work before bed is imperative, otherwise
added stress can delay sleep onset and reduce sleep quality (The subjects) were more fatigued
and drained and less ready for the work day after not receiving the necessary downtime,
Johnson said.


Education sophore Nicole Bush said she rarely uses her smartphone at night for schoolwork, but
does notice a delay in sleep onset after texting friends.I think about things that happened,
relating to my phone, like people I talked to, Bush said. Increased technology usage among
associates is what sparked the two studies, said Klodiana Lanaj, an assistant professor at the
University of Florida and one of the researchers working on the studies.All of us had friends
who were tethered to their smart phones constantly, Lanaj said. We were interested in how it
impacted work the next day.


Late-night use of smartphones, work-related or not, can produce negative physiological side
effects.


Johnson said smartphone backlighting interferes with the production of melatonin, a chemical
that regulates falling asleep and staying asleep.Exposure to any sort of light when preparing to
sleep is bad, Johnson said. Blue-light inhibits production of melatonin.
When late-night smartphone use continually disrupts sleep quality and quantity, the negative
impacts can extend past the next day, MSU Counseling Center Director Scott Becker said.
Over time, this can lead to problems with attention, memory, mood and stress levels, Becker
said in an email. These changes can be subtle initially, and it is not usually obvious to most
people that their technology usage is connected to their sleep or mental health issues. (source:
Michael Kransz | Published 01/30/14 9:38pm, The State News)


1.3 OBJECTIVE / PURPOSE



The objectives of this study are to:

To identify the impact of Smartphone for UTM Space student

To investigate why UTM Space student addicted to Smartphone



1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION



The research questions of this study are:

What is the impact of Smartphone for student?

Why UTM Space student addicted to Smartphone



1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY



Nowadays, avoiding smartphone from the view, quit difficult. The students who wish to take up
their studies have to create awareness among them about the impact of smartphone during class
periods. This is to more strengthen the relationship between students during class hours. Besides
that, students had to come up with a rule whereby, tighten the rules to switch off the phone while
learning in the schoolroom. If they came up with this rule, they would able to fully focus on the
studies. Therefore, this method will be able to improve the students attitude to move forward in
life.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY



The students of UTM will be selected randomly to answer the questionnaires. The type of
sampling that will be used is stratified random sampling. Fifty sets of questionnaires will be
distributed to UTM students .The impact of smartphone will be identified. Moreover, the
effective ways to encourage UTMspace students to aware about the impact of smartphone are to
be determined too.


What is examined - The impact of Smartphone

Sample size - 50 respondent(student)

Methodology - questionnaire

- Flyer survey

Instruments used - questionnaire

Duration - 1-2 week






2. 0 LITERATURE REVIEW



2.1 LOST CONCENTRATION



One survey had done by -Levitz, Omni Update, College Week Live, and NRCCUA to analyses
the frequently of students when use the mobile device such as Smartphone for browsing internet
in classes. The figures show the majority of students reported to having access to mobile devices.
Connellys (2010) article reports that student who has Smartphone affected in their concentrated
in class can become addicted to their Smartphone.
About 78 percent of candidates have their own Smartphone while in the classes. Among those
students, 22 percent didnt have the mobile devices. This further suggests that most of the time
students do browse the internet, oftentimes in the meantime while at classroom. From that
finding we can said that thru Smartphone student cant concentrate in their study.




According to report by 'Generation Y: Inside Out', While young people are "undoubtedly
capable of long periods of concentration", those who spend a lot of time alone using Smartphone
"tend to have less in the way of communication skills, self-awareness and emotional
intelligence." She adds: "That's not because they don't have the capabilities. But because they are
spending so much time communicating remotely with people rather than face-to-face, when they
come into situations where they have to work with others, they appear not to concentrate on
studies." (Dr. Carina Paine Schofield, 2009)




2.2 LESS COMMUNICATION



Today, many students addicted to using Smartphone whether theyre dating with someone,
interviewing someone or just texting with friends. But unluckily, they will miss the real-life
interaction because everybody busies to texting, massaging with their phone until their loss the
special quality about face-to-face interactions.
We wonder whether more electronic communication such as Smartphone will mean less face-to-
face conversations, and well sustain generations of people who are more comfortable texting
their friends than talking to them in person. More or less of the students will have the antisocial
symptom because of their influence with Smartphone.
According to a survey ,35% of students say they speak to their friends face to face while lesson
in school. The results of this are social awkwardness and even social anxiety when faced with
new people to meet in mortal.
Surveys have proven that it makes it hard for scholars who rely so heavily on technology to
actually pass along with adults in person because they dont quite get all of the necessary skills
to obtain or even start a face-to-face conversation.


Smartphones can be the culprit of communication breakdown among student Jovell Alingod a
Project Manager for eReflect also agree that Smartphone can sustain the relationship among
students as they only choose to communicate impersonally and drives the specious moment with
friends.


2.3 LIFESTYLE DISEASES



Smartphones have become a new enemy to our eternal rest in terms of quality and time. Apart
from that, the hour the otherwise might have been spends studying, going out or even spent a
quality time with friends are all taken up by Smartphone.
According to recent study by Stanford University in 2010, most of the student spent their sleep
with phone in bed. The extravagant usage of mobile devices and other garget is disrupting
peoples sleep patterns, and this lack of nap can even lead to diseases like diabetes and obesity,
medical professionals warned.
The lack of proper sleep is closely related to a host of lifestyle diseases, including diseases like
diabetes and obesity that are common in the UAE. If your Smartphone or tablet keeps you up,
you are more likely to indulge in a late night snack. The calories consumed are stored when you
go to sleep, and this simply results in further fat deposition in the body,


Dr Munir Iqbal, specialist psychiatrist at the Universal Hospital.
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLODY



3.1 INTRODUCTION



This section discusses the methodology of the research. The main purpose of the research is to
investigate and to fulfill the objective which was identify the impact of smartphone for student
and as well to investigate why student addicted to smartphone mostly. To assess and evaluate the
objective above, a group of survey chose to evaluate the UTM SPACE student at D Piazza Mall,
Bayan Baru,Penang. Data for the research were collected through questionnaire and flyer survey.


3.2 RESEARCH METHOD



This research utilized both the quantitative research methodology. The instruments used to
collect the data were questionnaire and flyer survey. A set of questionnaire containing 10
questions divided into 3 sections was developed. Different question types, such as ranking, yes-
no, open-ended and scale were used in the questionnaire.


3.3 RESPONDENT OF STUDY



The population involves in this study is among the students from UTM Space Penang whom
only part time students. From 360 students only 50 respondent will be chosen to attend the
survey. The survey will be carried out for 1 to 2 week duration time.


3.4 RESEARCH PROCEDURE



During the actual study, the questionnaires were distributed at various locations on campus, such
as the library entrance, cafeterias, and several student study areas. Respondents were approached
with an initial question of whether they are university students, before the questionnaire was
given to them.
The self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data among community of UTM
Space Penang. The questionnaires were disturbed among students in campus with all type of
categories provided. From the data collected, we manage to get the better solution for this issues.


3.5 DATA ANALYSIS



To analyze the data, the questionnaires were in the form of quantitative. Flyer survey data would
provide a way to validate the data from the questionnaire. The data were transcribed in question
form. Result and findings were presented in the form of descriptive statistics such as graph.

























Abstract



This study was carried out in order to identify the impact of Smartphone to UTM
Space students and to investigate why UTM Space students addicted to Smartphone. A
total of 60 students randomly choose to be the respondents of the study.

A set of online questionnaire were designed and distributed to obtain the primary
data. The overall findings of the study signify that the Smartphone will effect in our life
either positive or negative. Based on research, most of the student is agree that Smartphone
distribute in their studies and other side-effect such as lack of communication and health.

In conclusion, some suggestions have been put forward for student to aware about
impact of Smartphone. Besides, other recommendations for future research have also been
included in the final part of this report.




















Table of content Page

Abstract
Acknowledgement
List of figures
List of Abbreviations

1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background Information
1.2. Statement Of Problem
1.3. Objective / Purpose
1.4. Research Question
1.5. Significance Of The Study
1.6. Scope Of Study

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Lost Concentration
2.2. Lack of Communication
2.3. Lifestyle Diseases

3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLODY
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Research Method
3.3. Respondent Of Study
3.4. Research Procedure
3.5. Data Analysis




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4.0 FINDING AND DISCUSSIONS
4.1. Data Finding
4.2. Interrupt Your Original Lifestyle
4.3. Side-Effect To Human Body
4.4. Distraction On Study
4.5. Lack of Communication

5.0 CONCLUSION

6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS

7.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY/ REFERENCES

8.0 APPENDICES
8.1. Appendix A: Questionnaire