How Do Mobile Information Services Improve Quality of Life? The Case of Japanese Students

Abstract

Every technology should be geared to improve the quality of users’ lives. Our study aims to understand how mobile information services (MIS) contribute to quality of life (QoL) for young mobile users. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of relationship between two variables: the contribution of MIS in 15 specific life domains and the contribution of MIS to overall quality of life (QoL). We examined bottom-up spillover theory with original and our additional life domains. Eleven life domains derived from previous research include: leisure life, family life, friend life, cultural life, work life, community life, consumer life, financial life, health life, safety life, and self-life. Our proposed four life domains are: home-healthcare life, informational life, educational life and trustworthy life. Questionnaire surveys were conducted in Japan among young mobile users. We analyzed the data of 189 effective respondents. Results from this study clearly indicate that two variables (individual contribution and overall contribution) are valid and reliable to analyze. Contribution to the informational life has the highest influence on the overall contribution for Japanese young, followed by culture life, friend life, leisure life, educational life and work life.

Expanding mobile information service needs to improve quality of life: A cross-temporal comparison of Japanese students

“…We found that of our 15 life domains, the following four key life domains had a greater impact on Overall Contribution among young Japanese users than the other significant life domains: Leisure, Cultural, Informational, and Community. The first three, namely, Leisure, Cultural, and Informational life domains are significant, leading to the same stable results as those in [5] for 2015. The last domain, Community Life, became newly significant.…”

“…Reference [4] proposed eleven relationships between individual contribution and overall contribution of QoL in Korea and Japan and found that some of them had a stronger influence on overall contribution. Reference [5] analyzed the relationship between MIS and QoL in Japan.…”

“…The authors recognize the importance of revisiting the same problem by [5] with updated MIS data, using the same theory to compare the current with the past. This is because they are dealing with an important emerging market that is expected to change over time and is worth reexamining.…”

Construction of an Intelligent APP for Dance Training Mobile Information Management Platform Based on Edge Computing

“…e definition of cloud computing is that a mobile device delivers computing unit storage, operating platforms, other resources, or information service resources, or information service delivery communication networks from the cloud center over the mobile device on demand. is is the combined product of the mobile communication network [11]. Mobile devices connect to the cloud hub over a wireless network and send their own tasks to the cloud hub.…”

The impact of mobile information services on the quality of life of Internet users in Japan

“…Eleven relationships have been proposed [9] between the individual and overall contribution of QoL in Korea and Japan, some of which have been found to have a stronger influence on the overall contribution. Reference [10] and [11] measured the relationship between MIS and QoL of Japanese students, and tested a hypothesis regarding each variable's positive coefficient. Moreover, these studies examined the contribution of life domains to the QoL using MIS based on the bottom-up spillover theory.…”