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Is your smartphone making you dumb?
Smartphones may be detrimental to the users\' ability to learn, a year-long study of first-time mobile device users suggests. The research shows the self-rated impact of smartphones among the users. \"Smartphone technology is penetrating world markets and becoming abundant in most college settings,\" said Philip Kortum, assistant professor of psychology at Rice University in Houston and the study\'s co-author.
Houston: Smartphones may be detrimental to the users' ability to learn, a year-long study of first-time mobile device users suggests. The research shows the self-rated impact of smartphones among the users. "Smartphone technology is penetrating world markets and becoming abundant in most college settings," said Philip Kortum, assistant professor of psychology at Rice University in Houston and the study's co-author.
"We were interested to see how students with no prior experience using smartphones thought they impacted their education," said Kortum. The research shows that while users initially believed the mobile devices would improve their ability to perform well with homework and tests and ultimately get better grades, the opposite was reported at the end of the study. The longitudinal study from 2010 to 2011 focused on 24 first-time smartphone users at a major research university in Texas.
