The research on augmented reality applications in education is still in an early stage, and there is a lack of research on the effects and implications of augmented reality in the field of education. The purpose of this research was to measure and understand the impact of an augmented reality mobile application on the learning motivation of undergraduate health science students at the University of Cape Town. We extend previous research that looked specifically at the impact of augmented reality technology on student learning motivation. The intrinsic motivation theory was used to explain motivation in the context of learning. The attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction (ARCS) model guided the understanding of the impact of augmented reality on student motivation, and the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey was used to design the research instrument. The research examined the differences in student learning motivation before and after using the augmented reality mobile application. A total of 78 participants used the augmented reality mobile application and completed the preusage and postusage questionnaires. The results showed that using an augmented reality mobile application increased the learning motivation of students. The attention, satisfaction, and confidence factors of motivation were increased, and these results were found to be significant. Although the relevance factor showed a decrease it proved to be insignificant.

Mobile phones are an integral part of our modern lives. This study explores the use and role of mobile phones among South African university students. Four main categories are used to examine the students' mobile phone use: reasons to use mobile phones, pattern of mobile phone use, purchasing factors, and behaviour-related issues. Through a quantitative approach data was collected from 362 participants using a survey.The key findings indicate that the main reason South African university students (mainly from the University of Cape Town) use a mobile phone is for socializing, as well as for safety and privacy purposes. Usability and price emerged as the top purchasing factors. The respondents showed some signs of addiction to their mobile phones. Differences in mobile phone use by gender were found, with female students showing increased mobile phone use for safety and socializing, interest in brand and trends, as well as signs of addiction. The findings could prove beneficial to marketers, mobile phone developers, universities, parents, and researchers exploring mobile phone adoption and usage pattern in a developing country such as South Africa.

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International research has shown that users are complacent when it comes to smartphone security behaviour. This is contradictory, as users perceive data stored on the 'smart' devices to be private and worth protecting. Tr aditionally less attention is paid to human factors compared to technical security controls (such as firewalls and antivirus), but there is a crucial need to analyse human aspects as technology alone cannot deliver complete security solutions. Increasing a user's knowledge can improve compliance with good security practices, but for trainers and educators to create meaningful security awareness materials they must have a thorough understanding of users' existing behaviours, misconceptions and general attitude towards smartphone security.The primary purpose of this research was to assess the level of smartphone security awareness displayed by the public, determining whether a general level of security complacency exists amongst smartphone users. The study was undertaken in a South African context (a multi-cultural developing nation) and included demographics as a variable in assessing any differences in smartphone security awareness between population groups. A modified version of the instrument developed by [1) was used. A survey of 619 South African users examined trust of smartphone application repositories, users' considerations when installing new applications and their use of protection mech anisms (security controls). The sample proved complacent in their smartphone security behaviours with users displaying high levels of trust towards smartphone application repositories, rarely considering privacy and security considerations when installing new applications and also not adequately protecting themselves through adopting smartphone protection mechanisms (controls).The research did not find any conclusive associations to suggest that a user's home language impacts their information security behaviour or trust. However, an association between IT expertise and the adoption of smartphone security controls was found.