This research explores how expressed emotional arousal in a consumer review affects reader perceptions of its helpfulness. Drawing from research on written communication and lay theories of emotion, the authors propose a pattern of diminishing returns, in which the marginal effect of arousal on perceived helpfulness is positive at low levels of arousal but diminishes at higher levels. Results o...

Android is Google's latest open source software platform for mobile devices which has already attained enormous popularity. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of mobile application for shopping mall using Android platform. A prototype was developed for the shoppers of Bashundhara Shopping Mall of Bangladesh. This prototype will serve as a framework for any such application...

This demonstration presents Clover Quiz, a turn-based multiplayer trivia game for Android devices with more than 200K multiple choice questions (in English and Spanish) about different domains generated out of DBpedia. Instead of live queries, questions are created offline through a data extraction pipeline and a versatile template-based mechanism. A back-end server manages the question set and...

The copyright is held by the author/owner. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee. Poster presented at the 13th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2017). Abstract Mobile apps have to satisfy various privacy requirements. Notably, app publishers are often obligated to provide a privacy policy and not...

BACKGROUND Urological mobile medical (mHealth) apps are gaining popularity with both clinicians and patients. mHealth is a rapidly evolving and heterogeneous field, with some urology apps being downloaded over 10,000 times and others not at all. The factors that contribute to medical app downloads have yet to be identified, including the hypothetical influence of expert involvement in app devel...

BACKGROUND General consumers can now easily access drug information and quickly check for potential drug-drug interactions (PDDIs) through mobile health (mHealth) apps. With aging population in Canada, more people have chronic diseases and comorbidities leading to increasing numbers of medications. The use of mHealth apps for checking PDDIs can be helpful in ensuring patient safety and empowerm...

Mobile apps have been developed for marketing purposes and for creating new opportunities for firms to communicate with and satisfy their target audience. However, numerous mobile apps are added daily to the Google Play and Apple App Store. This study developed a mobile application to encourage customers to participate and engage in a marketing campaign in order to increase their potential oppo...

W idespread mobile device use has stimulated a rich market for applications. Many apps, however, reveal sensitive user information such as location, movements, and habits1 and/or spread malware.2 Network anonymization techniques alone don’t ensure privacy because the OS together with the invoked mobile apps might still release information that reidentifies users or devices. Even when users are ...

This paper proposes an approach to evaluate mobile applications which complements the information provided by the number of stars and downloads in app stores. The goal is to provide novel information to assist users in the decision-making process regarding the choice of applications. In this sense, we conducted experiments to verify the relationship between the number of stars and the content o...

Following recent advances in technology for hemodialysis, the number of patients with chronic renal failure receiving long-term hemodialysis remains to be increasing. Arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO) has attracted attention as a significant clinical problem in hemodialysis patients. Although several epidemiological studies on the development of ASO in hemodialysis patients are reported, there ...