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Mobile devices: effect on human health

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Currently mobile devices are of essential benefit for people in their personal and business activities. It is hence worthwhile maximizing those benefits and this in turn includes (among other things) minimizing corresponding health threatening effects that mainly concern the cell phone electromagnetic waves - this is the focus of the current paper. In particular, we are considering different GSM devices, analyzing the electromagnetic waves accordingly, focusing especially on the human body thermal effect - how the body temperature changes in the course of cell phone conversations of different duration. This is considered indicative with regard to the electromagnetic fields that are claimed to affect negatively not only the human body as a whole but also particular body organs. Further, the effect of using cell phones is claimed to go also beyond the mentioned physical "dimension", affecting people psychologically since being "with" the cell phone turns out to be kind of "addiction" with millions of users. Hence, the paper raises awareness (supported by experimental results) with regard to those worrying effects and draws recommendations accordingly.

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ICTRS '18: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Telecommunications and Remote Sensing
October 2018
91 pages
ISBN:9781450365802
DOI:10.1145/3278161
  • General Chairs:
  • Marijn Janssen,
  • Boris Shishkov,
  • Program Chairs:
  • Andon Lazarov,
  • Dimitris Mitrakos
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Published: 08 October 2018

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  1. cell phone
  2. effect on human health
  3. electromagnetic waves

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