BACKGROUND Translating research into practice, especially the implementation of digital health technologies in routine care, is increasingly important. Yet, there are few studies examining the challenges of implementing patient-facing digital technologies in health care settings. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to report challenges experienced when implementing mobile apps for patients to...

When there are many applications (apps) installed on a mobile device, the simple task of launching an app could become inconvenient, as the user may need to swipe the screen several times to find the desired app. In this paper, we present AppRush, an adaptive user interface solution for mobile devices, which uses dynamic shortcuts to facilitate app launching. AppRush predicts the apps most like...

Recent reports by IT research groups argue that recent developments in mobile devices and the mobile web will lead to the majority of Internet users accessing web services via mobile devices in the next few years. An analysis of web access statistics for mobile web browsers confirms that, if trends continue, web service access from mobile devices should exceed desktop access by end 2013. Due to...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective psychotherapy modalities used to treat depression and anxiety disorders. Homework is an integral component of CBT, but homework compliance in CBT remains problematic in real-life practice. The popularization of the mobile phone with app capabilities (smartphone) presents a unique opportunity to enhance CBT homework compliance; howe...

The aim of this study is to identify the key factors as antecedents of visitor satisfaction for the design of a mobile app for museums. To our aim we use the Kano model that allows to categorize service attributes according to how they are perceived by customers and to estimate their impact on customer satisfaction. We collected qualitative data trough 300 questionnaires administered to tourist...

Due to the popularity of smart phones and mobile apps, a potential privacy risk with the usage of mobile apps is that, from the usage information of mobile apps (e.g., how many hours a user plays mobile games in each day), private information about a user’s living habits and personal activities can be inferred. To assess this risk, this thesis answers the following research question: can the ty...

The high penetration of smartphones and the advanced capabilities of the software that they can host, forces public agencies to rapidly transform their services in the mobile government environment for maximizing utility of services and minimizing costs. In this context, the aim of the paper is primarily to review the smartphone use and capabilities in agriculture. An overview of apps targeted ...

The prevalence of smart mobile devices has promoted the popularity of mobile applications (a.k.a. apps). Supporting mobility has become a promising trend in software engineering research. This article presents an empirical study of behavioral service profiles collected from millions of users whose devices are deployed with Wandoujia, a leading Android app store service in China. The dataset of ...

Investigating the energy consumption of mobile applications (apps) is becoming a growing software engineering challenge due to the limited battery lifetime of mobile devices. Energy consumption is defined as the power demand integrated over time. Profiling the power demand of an app is a time consuming activity and the results are only valid for the target hardware used during the measurements....

BACKGROUND Both clinicians and patients use medical mobile phone apps. Anyone can publish medical apps, which leads to contents with variable quality that may have a serious impact on human lives. We herein provide an overview of the prevalence of expert involvement in app development and whether or not app contents adhere to current medical evidence. OBJECTIVE To systematically review studie...