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...

Medical mobile applications (apps) are prevalent in society. Healthcare providers use them to obtain clinical information more efficiently, and healthcare consumers use them to gain greater personal control over their health management. With the increasing number of health-related mobile apps available, people in the oncology community now have many relevant apps at their fingertips. These apps...

BACKGROUND Driving after the consumption of alcohol represents a significant problem globally. Individual prevention countermeasures such as personalized mobile app aimed at preventing such behavior are widespread, but there is little research on their accuracy and evidence base. There has been no known assessment investigating the quality of such apps. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine...

OF THE DISSERTATION Similarity Detection Techniques for Mobile Platform Artifacts by Amruta Gokhale Dissertation Director: Dr. Vinod Ganapathy There has been a tremendous increase in availability and use of mobile apps in recent years. Two dominant mobile platform providers, Apple and Google, have over 1.4 million applications (apps) each in their app markets as of May 2015. Such huge number of...

Our increasing reliance on mobile devices has led to the explosive development of millions of mobile apps across multiple platforms that are used by millions of people around the world every day. However, most software engineering research is performed on large desktop or server-side software applications (e.g., Eclipse and Apache). Unlike the software applications that we typically study, mobi...

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...

Smartphone users adopt an increasing number of mobile applications (a.k.a., apps) in the recent years. Investigating how people manage mobile apps in their everyday lives creates a unique opportunity to understand the behaviors and preferences of mobile users. Existing literature provides very limited understanding about app management activities, due to the lack of user behavioral data at scal...

Mobile apps offer new possibilities to improve business processes. However, the introduction of mobile apps is typically carried out from a technology point of view. Hence, process improvement from a business point of view is not guaranteed. There is a methodological lack for a holistic analysis of business processes regarding mobile technology. For this purpose, we present an analysis framewor...

BACKGROUND There are several mobile apps that offer tools for disease prevention and management among older adults, and promote health behaviors that could potentially reduce or delay the onset of disease. A classification scheme that categorizes apps could be useful to both older adult app users and app developers. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to build and evaluate the effectiven...

Today millions of mobile apps are downloaded and used all over the world. Guidelines and best practices on how to design and develop mobile apps are being periodically released, mainly by mobile platform vendors and researchers. They cover different concerns, and refer to different technical and non-technical stakeholders. Still, mobile applications are developed with ad-hoc development process...