Influence of new mobile tools on communication

With the advent of such new communication tools as cellular phones and the Internet, communication styles have diversified. This diversity has brought changes in community formation as well as such serious problems as network addiction and mutual distrust among users. The purpose of this study is to find clues to these problems produced by those new communication tools. Thus, we focus on the diffusion of cellular phones and simulate a community-forming mechanism to clarify the influence of mobile tools on community formation. We propose a model for cellular phones as mobile tool and represent a community by a communication network using Heider’s theory of “The psychology of interpersonal relations. ” The results of the simulation confirmed the propriety of this proposed model. In addition, we simulated the formation of a community to clarify the relationship between the diffusion of mobile tools and the community. This experiment reveals the useful results about effect of mobile tools to communication and community that will be applied