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To promote online shoppers’ long-term interest, consumers need to have the knowledge and ability to avoid problems with financial issues. Financial capability helps to put consumers on the path to a sustainable financial future. However, previous studies only focused on financial capability in a financial context. To handle personal finance systematically and successfully in an online setting, this study extends an enhanced understanding of how financial capability on online consumer behaviour. Based on the data of 690 respondents collected by a face-to-face from eight main regions in Albania, this study employed principal components analysis and logistic regression in order to investigate the effect of consumers’ financial capabilities and technology use on the decision to purchase online. The outcome of this study firstly identifies six dimensions of financial capabilities, namely, digital banking usage, financial service risk, financial advice, payment risk, risk tolerance, and financial attitude. Secondly, the finding revealed that individuals who use smartphones and administrate a social media account, are more likely to involve in purchasing through online channels. Moreover, the decision to purchase online is more prone for those individuals who manifest high levels in digital banking usage, financial advice, prior bank experience and technology usage, and low levels in attitude towards payment risk and attitude towards risk tolerance. This paper offers useful insights concerning the determinants of online purchasing by combining individuals’ financial capability, technology and social media usage along with its demographic characteristics. In term of practical contribution, this study provides a useful model by incorporating for measuring and managing consumers’ financial capability to enhance their involvement and to reduce their cognitive dissonance in the online shopping context. This study also contributes to the accumulated knowledge and encourages consumers to use digital banking and consult their financial issues when purchasing online. © 2020, Technical University of Liberec. All rights reserved.

The diploma thesis deals with the short-term effect of a smartphone usage on selective visual attention. The aim of this work was to examine whether there is a change in active selective visual attention after a single exposure to smartphone. The second objective was to find out if the sports organizations somehow restrict the use of mobile phones prior to the athletes' performance. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes the development in attention research and findings of recent studies, concerning smartphone effects and attention. Methodology: For the assessment of changes in attention the d2 Attention Test was used. The first testing was performed after using a smartphone for 10 minutes, the following testing was done without prior phone usage. Representatives of Prague sports organizations were contacted to answer questions regarding the mobile phone restriction in their club. Results: Results show better concentration performance when testing without prior smartphone usage. The concentration performance after the smartphone usage is in the range of 83% - 95% of the concentration performance without prior exposition to the smartphone (with the 95% confidence interval). Additionally, there was no statistically significant difference observed between the first two rows and the rest of the...

This bachelor thesis deals with the excessive use of modern technologies for the possible origin of sleep disorders in children of older school age. The theoretical part characterises older school age, sleep, sleep disorders, the specifics of sleep in children and adolescents, modern technologies and their impact on human organism and summarises available research related to the impact of using modern technologies on the sleep quality in children. The practical part presents quantitative research examining the influence of excessive use of modern technologies on the possible origin of sleep disorders in children of older school age.

This paper applies to domestication of smartphones among young population in Czech Republic. It provides theoretical and empirical perspective at how research participants adopted their smartphones and how they incorporated them into their daily routine. Using mixed method study this paper offers insight into which applications are participants using, how long, how intensively they spent time with smartphones and which part play smartphones in their daily life. Study is consists of three phases. First phase was based on log data collection by participants via application installed on their smartphones. Second phase was mapping subjective perception of measure and frequency of users activity via structured questionnaire. In the last phase all participants met for group interview to talk about results from the first and second phase and to expand topics realated to excessive smartphone activity. The study shows participants were spending three hours a day on their smartphones, they have check it more than every thirty minutes and the most used applications were social media. Communication via applications for instant messaging is common part of their lives. They have spent time on their smartphones mostly at school. Study did not show addiction of participants to smartphones, however it pointed out a...

This bachelor thesis deals with the safety authentication and authorization tool OTP which is sent by SMS when confirm payment orders make through internet banking services. The work deals with the methodology of attack using malicious code to gain access to a bank account client fallen and safety assessment tool currently used by OTP as a method for two-factor authentication.

This bachelor thesis is focused on the internet of things and GPS navigation applications. The first part of the thesis consists of theoretical basics to familiarize the reader with the internet of things, its development, areas of use and security. Currently, built in navigation devices and navigation applications in smartphones are used separately, the internet of things is going to change that. In the second part todays GPS navigation applications are analyzed and compared based on the selected criteria and it is verified if the navigation applications for smartphones can replace the built in solution of BMW X5. The applications are compared based on their functions. The aim of this thesis is to analyze each of the selected applications and compare them based on the selected criteria and choose the best replacement for the built in solution until there are combined solutions available with synchronization between the built in navigation system and a navigation application.

This thesis deals with the development of a gaming application for smartphones with Android operating system. This project also describes the situation on the mobile applications market and explains the basic principles of object-oriented programming, Java and Android development. The thesis includes a description of the publishment of the final application on the market and the important features of the Eclipse developing environment and of Android studio. As the next part follows methodology and detailed analysis of the application development, on which are demonstrated the possibilities of working with the mentioned instruments. Both, the theoretical and practical parts, are designed to describe the situations in which the developer of Android applications can get and what mistakes should he avoid. The game theme has been chosen to be original, easy to use and not too much graphically complicated. It is an expanded version of classical chess with special rules. Particular examples of the program development are chosen so that the reader gets enough information about how it works, and what steps were made during its creation.

Bachelor thesis is focused on selected mobile sports applications, which record results achieved in the course of helping to develop the sport in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the thesis is testing sports applications and evaluation of results. The subject of the work is the analysis of sports mobile application, explore the situation on the market of mobile applications, characterization of trends and questionnaire survey. The paper describes the functions of sports applications and its practical use. In conclusion the author evaluates the results, questionnaire survey and testing of applications with the help of sports data collection between users and non-users of mobile sports applications. Reader can evaluate the pros and cons of mobile sports applications and choose the one that best meets the evaluation criteria.

The bachelor thesis ,Using modern technology in economic education, is focused on a problem with integration technology (smarthphone, tablets and others) into a normal economic classes in high schools. First, technical part, describes each individual device and different kinds of operating systems they use. Second part describes results from other researches about similar topics. Third, didactic part, is focused on didactic technology, e-learning, m-learning a new theories in education. Fourth part includes my own research about using modern technologies by students and teachers in high schools and brings analysis of discovered information. Final part gives practical recommendation for pedagogical practice in teaching economical subjects.

This Bachelor thesis deals with mobile applications Našim pro radost and Můj T-Mobile created by T-Mobile company and their use in marketing. The tool of the thesis is analysis of the mobile applications, their functions, development and services they provide. The thesis includes two surveys, first based on interviews with managers, second based on the survey of users. The aim is to compare both surveys and make recommendations for future applications development. The first part contains important theoretical knowledge of the topic of mobile marketing and mobile applications. The basics for this part are the scientific studies, expert internet sources and literary sources. The second part is about analysis of T-Mobile company and applications of T-Mobile, survey of interview, survey of questionnaire and following comparison and recommendation for T-Mobile company. In this section, the sources are interviews with executives of T-Mobile and a semi-structured online questionnaire with users.

The aim of this thesis was to do consumer behaviour research on the electronics market. This thesis is specialized on the mobile phone market. According to the results of consumer research were proposed the recommendations for improving the current situation. These were made by O2 Czech Republic.

First of all this bachelor thesis determines users preferences by a questionnaire survey and use them during development of RSS reader for Android platform. Also marketing strategy for distributing the finished Android application will be based on the results of questionnaire survey. To obtain information that is not available through RSS feeds, will be designed and created API based on REST architecture. The main results are summarized in the conclusion of this thesis.

This thesis is thematically focused on the use of modern technology in economic education at secondary schools. The theoretical part discusses the issue of modernization of education, including the presentation of the Ministry of Education document Strategy digital education by 2020. Furthermore in the context of theoretical analyzed in detail the different types of modern technology and the last chapter of this part of this thesis deals with current projects, which are designed to support the modernization of education. In the empirical part of this thesis, analyzes a survey carried out among teachers of business subject at secondary schools and pupils at a secondary school as well. The aim of this section is to use the survey to determine attitudes of teachers and students to modern technologies. And then also examine the possibilities of new modern technologies in teaching business subjects.

This bachelor thesis is focused on application permissions in Android OS. Main purpose of this thesis is to determine the user's degree of knowledge about permissions in this system. The purpose was fulfilled thanks to a survey among selected users and evaluation of this survey. The benefit of this thesis is in presentation of the survey's results which describes the user's degree of knowledge about permissions. Bachelor thesis is divided into two sections. First section processes theoretical basis for the survey. The theoretical basis consist of brief characteristics of Android OS, definition of guiding principles for application security and description of selected permissions. Further in this section is explained the permission declaration for application from the developer's view and describes the application installation process and the permission approval dialog. First section ends with a definition of used methodic for survey. Second section presents the results of the survey and derives consequences from these results.

The bachelor thesis is dedicated to the origin and development of the tablet-only magazines in the Czech Republic. The component of the thesis is the analysis not only of the tablet-only magazines published on the Czech media market in the period between the years 2012 and 2015, but also the publishing houses themselves that are specialised in this modern and unique technological trend. The essential part of the thesis is then the definition of technological aspects connected with the process of creation and distribution of the magazines and restrictions applied from the legislation area. Theoretical perspective on this issue was then tested and examined in the realized questionnaire survey. The smartphone and the tablet users were subjected to questions regarding their device usage for various activities, and also their awareness about the available tablet-only magazine. The usage of these electronical contents, the attitude to the interactivity, the pricing and the tematical specialization in the new potential tablet magazines were then determined. Based on the development of the market segment in foreign countries, on the opinion of the experts and on my own evaluation, the potential development in the Czech Republic is outlined in the closing part of this thesis via describing the advantages...

The technology of television picture shooting and its transfer has been evolving since its inception. The evolution significantly influences the TV news production. It preceded the emergence of a mobile journalism, which means the application of smartphones in the TV news production. The goal of this thesis is to describe the application of the latest technology, smartphones, in the Czech television TV news. The main benefit of this thesis is to find a current state of use of smartphones in the Czech television, including its positives and negatives. Some space in the thesis is also dedicated to the history of smartphones usage and also to possible future ways of the usage. First part of the thesis is theoretical and introduces the mobile journalism in the context of technological development. Second part of the thesis is a case study of smartphones application in the Czech television TV news. It is based on an analysis of a qualitative interview with an external editor of the Czech television.

By questionnaire survey are the preferences of the potential users determined. Based on this research is the bachelor's work, which is aimed on creating an android application, written. The main objective of the application is to enable efficient planning of events for football team. The application is working properly only with available internet connection. The goal is to get data from database server or send them to the server. These data are transferred to the application and displayed to the user.

The main objective of this work was the identification of modern technologies in tourism. The secondary objective was to apply these technologies in tourism and propose measures to improve the situation. First, it was necessary to study literature and write the literature search. Then was carried out a field survey. The results of the investigation were used to determine how are the selected technology used by tourists. These results were also the basis for the proposed measures. These should serve businesses better adapt to the current requirements of its customers.

The diploma thesis "M-technologies in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region" deals with modern technologies in the context of education and in the context of school management. The theoretical part summarizes the basic theoretical information about m-technologies and other modern technologies which then comes the part of research of the thesis which is focused on facilities and use of modern technologies ICT in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region. Questionnaire results and research about using modern technologies in education and in school management are the focus of the practical part. The thesis deals with level of implementation and use of m-technologies and other modern technologies in primary schools. KEYWORDS: information and communication technologies; m-technologies; tablet; smartphone; eReader; interactive whiteboard; dataprojector; data box; information system

By means of my bachelor thesis "Use of 3D graphics in the creation of product visualization" I want to first familiarize a reader with 3D computer graphics and its application in practice. The thesis is not limited only to 3D graphics; it is also devoted to photography and composition in the visual arts. As there are more ways to create product visualisation, the main contribution is in the practical part of the paper, which deals with these possibilities. For consistency and better understanding, the practical part contains the product chain outlining the plan of a commission to create product visualization. In the last part of the thesis, I simulate a specific order for product visualization of the LG G2 smartphone. The conclusion of the thesis evaluates the individual methods by means of the output visualizations and sums up the issues of product visualization.

This Bachelor's Thesis deals with mobile applications for smartphones and their use in marketing. The goal of the Thesis is to provide specific recommendations for use of mobile applications within the corporate marketing mix, based on an analysis of creation, usage and position of mobile applications as a marketing tool. The terms necessary to understand the subject are defined and described in the first part of the Thesis -- deciding on application development, the development itself, application support and its integration into corporate marketing. The second part consists of analysis of four different mobile applications. This analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of companies, combined with publicly available information gained from literature, Internet articles, analytic tools and social networks. The result of the Thesis is evaluation of application analysis and following recommendations for using mobile applications in marketing.

This thesis deals with the topic of self-measurement and quantification of the human life with the help of smartphones, tablets, wearables and software applications. All these tools can help us to improve the quality of our life, if we know how to use these technologies and how to use the data that they provide us. In my work I analyzed current situation of the quantified self market with the variety number of parameters you can measure. Next I tried measuring a collecting data about myself and I tried to demonstrate that it really can be useful if you know how to use all the information these tools give you. And as a last part I did a survey among the public and the results were that self-measuring is not that common in Czech Republic but majority of respondents believe in the future of quantified self as well as many companies that invest in this field of technology.

Diploma thesis focuses on modern trends in marketing communication of specific educational institution. Main goal of the thesis is to analyse and to design of a mobile application for Faculty of Management University of Economics in Prague as a new tool of marketing communication intended for candidates interested in studying and potential students. Theoretical part of the thesis includes general topics about strategic university management of Universities, marketing communication and relations management. Author also presents the mobile application as a product, its applicability, ways of its distribution and necessary steps for its analysis and design.

This master's thesis aims to develop a mobile application for the Google Android operating system based on customer requirements. Applications should serve to showcase customer's products, view calendar of courses and to let user book chosen course term. The work begins with research of a few chosen books focused on developing applications for Android and then client requirements are defined. Based on the results of research and defined customer requirements, detailed application specifications are laid down. Then there is presented architecture of whole application. The work ends with a pair of manuals. The first one is intended to the application administrator, whom it will serve during modifying and updating data. The second one is for user, whom it will assist during the process of application installation to the device and to introduce its control methods. The installation file of developed application is in the appendixes of this work.

The objective of bachelor's thesis is to find out, how to make graphic design of mobile applications. Thesis has two parts. At the beginning is described growth of mobile application market and terms about mobile devices. After this thesis describes, what is mobile application, identify difference between native applications and mobile web sites. Last section of teoretical part is about approaches how to design mobile applications. The second part is practical. There are chosen three applications, which will be tested, if their graphic design was created well. In case graphic design is not created well, there will be made solution, which removes lacks in graphic design of application. There will be also evaluated hypothesis, if graphic designers are making user friendly applications.

This Bachelor thesis deals with the graphic web design which is optimized for mobile phones. The introduction is about the properties of mobile phones and its users in a way that is important to a website design. The mobile web and its possible alternatives are described after the introduction. After this preface is a chapter devoted directly to graphic design of mobile website (general principles, specifics, layout recommendations). This knowledge is used to design a graphic design on a specific case-study. For create graphic design mobile site was chosen Integrated Study Information System at the University of Economics, Prague. A research was made among the users of the information system. It focused on using a mobile phone to visit Integrated Study Information System and which applications of this System, students use the most. Based on this research, information architecture was determined and a graphic design of basic screens of school information system was designed according to this information architecture. In the end of the thesis the final design is presented to selected students who will evaluate the information architecture and the graphic design of the selected screens in order to show the correct evaluation of research among students and the final outcome meets students needs.

This thesis is focused on mobile learning segment with specific aim to take advantage of smartphones. The main platforms on mobile market are introduced afterwards, namely iOS and Android, their development and distribution channels with applications. The practical part focuses on analysis and rating selected educational apps. It serves as recommendation what to look for in case of mobile learning and which particular platform should be chosen.

This master thesis is focused on topic of using mobile devices in work environment of enterprises, specifically on using mobile devices owned by employees. The thesis is divided into two parts. First part of the thesis describes benefits and risks of using mobile devices in enterprises while allowing usage of mobile devices owned by employees and compares individual mobile platforms in terms of security. Also there is a comparison of individual mobile devices management solutions in terms of security in this part of the thesis. Second part of the thesis is focused on methodology of mobile devices implementation in enterprises and their security. Methodology describes activities required for implementation of mobile devices in enterprises. At the end of this part there are security recommendations which are suitable to apply to mobile devices in enterprises.

This bachelor thesis describes to mobile operating system Windows Phone 8. That was introduced in half of the year 2012. The main aim this thesis is to introduce operating system Windows Phone 8. It includes all its parameters, features and technologies, which are necessary for future application development. Partial goal is to explain the possibilities and processes of the development not only for Windows Phone 8 but also for Windows 8. Another crucial goal is the illustrative example of using new technologies in applications. These goals were accomplished by gathering information from foreign sources, because Czech sources concerning this system are not insufficient. This thesis is divided into following parts: firstly describes the functions and news, that are available in the system, manners and principals of designing applications are following, in the next section is explained designing pattern and manners of multi-platform development and in the end is showed, how it is possible to implement functions such as: voice commands, geolocalization, wallet and wireless information transport. In this thesis are summarised all information that are necessary for introducing system Windows Phone 8 beginning and also advanced application developer. In the Czech Republic there has not already been published any publication that would focus on mobile system Windows Phone 8.

In my bachelor thesis I focus on mobile operating system Android and specifically on its version Android 4.0, which is designed for smart phones and tablets. The thesis has several parts. In the first part of thesis is devoted to the Android platform as a whole, its architecture, features and previous versions. In the second part I deal with Android 4.0 itself, its differences from previous versions, new features and the unification of the Android platform. The third part contains information about events around the Android platform and the statistics on this platform. The last part, which is practical, contains results achieved through the evaluation questionnaire.

The main objective of this diploma thesis is to design and develop a cloud hosted service that allows developers of games for Windows Phone 7 platform to extend their products with social and competitive aspect using Platform as a Service solution Windows Azure for hosting the backend of this system. The first part of the thesis analyses systems that are available on the market and that are providing similar services for the target platform. Based on this analysis, functional and general requirements for the future application are specified in the second part. Based on these requirements, use case analysis is made. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to description of the most important features, APIs and specifics of the Windows Phone 7 software platform. The fourth part is dedicated to Windows Azure as a Cloud platform both in terms of most important services, their characteristics and APIs used to utilise them and in terms of their business and pricing conditions. The fifth part addresses the architecture and the most important implementation details of the application. The final part contains the user guide for both the Windows Phone 7 application and for developers interested in using the library containing the API during the development of their game. The output of this thesis is the designed and implemented application with client-server architecture ready to have its backend deployed in Windows Azure environment and to have its frontend deployed on Windows Phone 7 devices. The client part of the system is comprised of a library intended for developers of games, which encapsulates the API needed to access the backend on the Internet, and a graphic frontend intended for end users. The server part, which contains most of the application logic, has REST interface. The applications architecture allows future development in terms of new functionality and expansion on more client platforms.

The present thesis deals with the use of mobile technologies in the follow-up to ERP systems. Goal is to analyze the integration of mobile technologies into the corporate environment. The thesis at first analyses the existing state, reasons for and benefits of use of mobile technologies in the corporate sphere with the use of the research methodology of semi-structured interviews. This part is concluded with the author's evaluation of investigated cases and with identification of other related types of solution in practice. The final part of the thesis is dealt with the case study in a Czech company. This part of the thesis starts with an analysis of the current state of information and communication technologies in the company on the basis of consultations and visits to employee workplaces; subsequently it specifies opportunities for improvement of support of selected corporate processes for which possible solutions are proposed in the final part of the thesis. The thesis brings some still unpublished information with regard to the use of mobile technologies in the business environment.

This bachelor work deals with the evaluation of mobile platforms from the perspective of mobile applications developers. The aim of this thesis is to establish criteria for mobile platform evaluating from the per-spective of novice developer, who wants to develop applications in his free time, and to use them for comparison of selected mobile platforms so that the reader will be able to ad-just them to his preferences and then choose the best option for him. This aim was achieved by synthesis of information from Czech and foreign sources, under which were created my own recommendations for choosing a platform for mobile applications devel-opment. The thesis is structured as follows: first is captured the market share of different mobile platforms in the Czech and worldwide mobile operating systems market, then are described three major mobile platforms (Android, iOS and Windows Phone) in detail, focusing on the specifics of mobile application development, in the next chapter are defined evaluation criteria according to novice hobby developers and the conclusion is based on comparison of selected mobile platforms by the selected criteria. This thesis provides developers with the necessary information and recommendations for the choice of platform for developing mobile applications. In the Czech Republic has not been yet published any work, which compares so comprehensive the most important mo-bile platforms and evaluated them from the perspective of mobile applications developers.

Main topic of the Master's Thesis is mobile marketing in Czech Republic and the goal is to describe development of mobile devices, provided services and usage in marketing and marketing communication. Theoretical part is concerning development of the mobile devices and services where each topic is followed by a case study. Practical part contains quantitative and qualitative research. Quantitative on-line based research was conducted on sample of 100 deliberately chosen users. Main goal of this research was evaluation of average user experience with mobile marketing. Qualitative research was conducted by guided discussion with experts in the area of mobile marketing. Main goal of the research was assess actual scope of the use by marketers in context of the situation on the Czech market and discuss future development of this area.

This diploma thesis deals with support employee's mobility in ERP systems. In the opening it describes contemporary trends in the use of mobile devices in companies, followed by overview of basic functionality, which is essential for deploying those devices in the enterprise environment. Next part is focused on the integration of mobile devices into enterprise architecture. It consists of description, how the information from identified ERP modules is made available for mobile devices. New activities are connected with mobile device integration, especially security and management. Therefore several options covering these activities are mentioned in this thesis. Last part provides study of company Diskus spol. s r.o., where two problems are being discussed - low support for field workers and missing security policies for mobile devices. Last contribution is the comparison of support for mobile devices in ERP systems from the selected Czech providers (ABRA Gx, Byznys ERP, Helios Orange, K2, Karat and Premier System).