BACKGROUND There is significant potential for mobile health technology to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. However, there is a need for further development of mobile health technology that would help to improve the health of lower-income communities. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess mobile phone and app usage among a culturally diverse patient population,...

Mobile health (m-health) apps can bring health prevention and promotion to the general population. The main purpose of this article is to analyze different m-health apps for a broad spectrum of consumers by means of three different experiences. This goal was defined following the strategic documents generated by the main prospective observatories of Information and Communications Technology for...

Mobile ecosystem is one of the most successful markets in recent years with billions of mobile device users and millions of mobile applications (apps) in multiple app platforms. As the market grows, the challenge is how app developers advertise their apps to the right users and how customers search the right apps that fit their needs. Cross promotion, advertising a mobile app in another establi...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, there have been massive developments in both Web-based and mobile phone technologies. Mobile phones are well accepted by students, trainees, and doctors. A review of the current literature has identified the following specialties that have used mobile phones in education: pediatrics, ophthalmology, nephrology, plastic surgery, orthopedics, pharmacology, and urol...

Mobile application spoofing is an attack where a malicious mobile app mimics the visual appearance of another one. A common example of mobile application spoofing is a phishing attack where the adversary tricks the user into revealing her password to a malicious app that resembles the legitimate one. In this paper, we propose a novel spoofing detection approach, tailored to the protection of mo...

Using a unique panel data set detailing individual-level mobile app consumption, this study develops a utility theory-based structural model for multiple discrete/continuous choices in app use. We identify the dynamics and interdependencies between mobile apps and jointly quantify consumers’ app choice and satiation simultaneously. The results suggest that mobile users’ baseline utility is the ...

Among several traditional and novel mobile app recommender techniques that utilize a diverse set of app-related features (such as an app’s Twitter followers, various version instances, etc.), which apprelated features are the most important indicators for app recommendation? In this paper, we develop a hybrid app recommender framework that integrates a variety of app-related features and recomm...

This research revisits the issue of software piracy in the emerging mobile apps market. The study seeks to empirically examine the controversial impact of piracy on the market performance of the legitimate apps. In particular, the study attempts to empirically examine how the presence (or absence) of free app affects the extent of piracy, and consequently, the adoption of the paid apps in the m...

In the past decade, mobile app usage has played an important role in our daily life. Existing studies have shown that is intrinsically linked with, among others, demographics, social and economic factors. However, due to data limitations, most of these a short time span treat users static manner. To date, no study whether changes socioeconomic status or other demographics are reflected long-ter...

With the prevalence of smartphones, app markets such as Apple App Store and Google Play has become the center stage in the mobile app ecosystem, with millions of apps developed by tens of thousands of app developers in each major market. This paper presents a study of the mobile app ecosystem from the perspective of app developers. Based on over one million Android apps and 320,000 developers f...