The meteoric rise of mobile software that we have witnessed in the past decade parallels a paradigm shift in its design, construction, and deployment. In particular, we argue that today’s mobile software, with its rich ecosystem of apps, would have not been possible without the pioneering advances in software architecture research in the decade that preceded it. We describe the drivers that ele...

Teens are using mobile devices for an increasing number of activities. Smartphones and a variety of mobile apps for communication, entertainment, and productivity have become an integral part of their lives. This mobile phone use has evolved rapidly as technology has changed and thus studies from even 2 or 3 years ago may not reflect new patterns and practices as smartphones have become more so...

BACKGROUND Despite the hundreds of diet apps available for use on smartphones (mobile phones), no studies have examined their use as tools for dietary assessment and tracking in sports nutrition. OBJECTIVE The aim is to examine the prevalence and perceptions of using smartphone diet apps for dietary assessment and tracking among sports dietitians. METHODS A cross-sectional online survey to ...

INTRODUCTION Software applications executed on a smart-phone or mobile device ("Apps") are increasingly used by oncologists in their daily work. A comprehensive critical review was conducted on Apps specifically designed for Radiation Oncology, which aims to provide scientific support for these tools and to guide users in choosing the most suited to their needs. MATERIAL AND METHODS A systema...

BACKGROUND Consumers are increasingly accessing health-related information via mobile devices. Recently, several apps to rate and locate physicians have been released in the United States and Germany. However, knowledge about what kinds of variables explain usage of mobile physician-rating apps is still lacking. OBJECTIVE This study analyzes factors influencing the adoption of and willingness...

Mobile apps have access to a variety of sensitive resources and data. Current permissionbased policies guarding these resources are not expressive enough to distinguish the wanted functionality from malicious attacks. We present the tool PhoneWrap which inserts fine-grained ticket-based policies into mobile JavaScript apps written with the PhoneGap framework. Our policies grant a bounded number...

News is increasingly being accessed on smartphones and tablets, establishing mobile news reading as one of the most popular activities on mobile devices. News reading is also a very individual activity with marked differences in the way people read and access the news, however, news apps have limited personalization. In this paper, we approach news personalization as a two-dimensional problem. ...

WebView is a technique to mingle web and native applications for mobile devices. The fact that its main incentive requires making data stored on, as well as the functionality of mobile devices, directly accessible to active web content, is not without consequences to security. In this paper, we present a threat scenario that targets WebView apps and show its practical applicability in a case st...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious long-term lung disease in which the airflow from the lungs is progressively reduced. By 2030, COPD will become the third cause of mortality and seventh cause of morbidity worldwide. With advances in technology and mobile communications, significant progress in the mobile health (mHealth) sector has been recently observed. Mobi...