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Healthcare in Asia is about to be disrupted by mobile technology.

The paper discusses an evaluation study that investigates the impact of mobile technology on a UK police force and on knowledge sharing processes. An empirical, ethnographic approach to the research was adopted, using a mixed method approach of focus groups, questionnaires, observational "work shadowing" and interviews with a total of 42 staff involved in a trial of mobile technology. The findings from the various methods are consistent, suggesting that mobile technology has a positive impact on policing and knowledge sharing. The timeliness of information improved, increasing the availability of information for decision-making. Reductions in information overload were apparent due to mobile technology providing greater control over information. There was a positive impact on knowledge sharing in the course of operational duties. Information and knowledge could be shared more quickly with officers in the field; and mobile technology provided a new avenue for keeping each other up to date with events. The paper contributes towards an understanding of the upcoming concept of "mobile knowledge management" and offers a set of recommendations to manage the possible long-term risk of mobile technology on knowledge sharing.

Increasingly, powerful mobile technology, like the tablet, empowers learners to seek information in mobile learning scenarios virtually anywhere and anytime. It is important for the academic library to look at how students use their tablets for library information seeking tasks to fully understand the nature of the patron's task and the need for the tablet. This study investigates the function of mobile technology based on the information seeking task, with particular reference to the appropriateness of tablet characteristics for the information seeking task in a library online database, downloading and reading from the screen, the effect of the patron's perception on their behavioural intention (BI) to use the tablet, and a measure of the patron's acceptance. Adapting the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model requires re-specification to suit a specific information system. The re-specific model introduces new constructs and new measuring instruments. New constructs were used for exogenous predictors of the UTAUT variables as well as including integration variables namely technology characteristics and task characteristics that were explicitly contained in the task-technology fit (TTF) model. These extensions and integrations of UTAUT have been valuable in expanding our understanding of technology adoption and extending the boundaries of the theory. Our research found that TTF and performance expectancy (PE) have a direct effect on actual use (AU). In addition, we also found a significant effect of the TTF on PE which in turn influences BI to accept the tablet for library information seeking tasks. This shows the importance of TTF. Besides, the results showed that interaction with library search systems revealed the strongest effect among the exogenous variables, which ultimately determines the AU of the tablet for library information seeking tasks.

In recent years, the rapid development of network technology has prompted the change of the catering industry. The catering talents include waiters and chefs at all levels, whose skills training and learning methods are different. As the application of technology services expands into the catering service industry, it is becoming more and more important for the consumer dining experience and the restaurant service efficiency. The introduction of mobile technology management and service design concepts in the catering education and attached internship restaurants will change the teaching mode of the traditional catering learning and the internship restaurant.

Service experience and mobile technology are key to service innovation of catering education and catering learning. Which are not only drive the development of service management of catering education. To integrate service experience and technology management into the field of the attached internship restaurant. The attached internship restaurant education has been established one after another, and different restaurant service processes and practical teaching are provided in the simulation restaurant teaching. The focus on traditional catering service process and service quality teaching and training is lack of human-computer interaction learning mode. In most of the attached internship restaurants, the service quality is poor, the service efficiency is low, the customer satisfaction is poor. Lack of in-depth planning of service flow, service experience mode learning method has become the subject of improvement at present.

The action research method was used in the study on the basis of integrating the mobile technology and service experience into the catering education design model. The field survey method was adopted to actually interview the California Culinary Academy faculty at the site of the internship restaurant. Then, the expert conference method was used to modify the mobile technology and service experience design one by one, and verify the feasibility of integrating the mobile technology and service experience into the catering education model.

This project explores the potential for multi-modal learning in the use of smartphones, tablets and notebook computers in lectures and seminars at an English-as-Medium-of- Instruction (EMI) university in China. Through surveys and focus groups, existing practices are investigated and staff and students consulted to understand how these resources construct or obstruct classroom learning. Effective and innovative ways of systematically exploiting these mobile devices in teaching and learning are also explored. Preliminary findings suggest that there is a significant gap in the attitudes and perceptions between students and staff. Ways to fill this gap and implications for pedagogy will be discussed.

Put forward the system framework, drew the system flow chart and designed the system module, and completed the database design. The system has three modules. It includes information display module, map geographical information module that includes location and back end management module. The information display module can realize the national culture and national characteristics information of tourist attractions, hotels, catering and entertainment information display; Map geographical information module can realize location geographic information, positioning, trip planning and function of searching the nearby. Back end management module has three functions. It can realize information uploading, maintenance and function of information mining.