The number of mobile apps launched in the market has exponentially grown to more than 2 million, but little is known about how users choose and consume apps of numerous categories. This study develops a utility theory-based structural model for mobile app analytics. We use the theoretical concepts of utility and satiation along with the factor analytic approach as bases in simultaneously modeli...

With the popularity of smart mobile devices, the amount of mobile applications (or simply called apps) has been increasing dramatically in recent years. However, due to low threshold to enter app industry, app developers vary significantly with respect to their expertise and reputation in the production of apps. Currently, there is no well-recognized objective and effective means to profile app...

The paper reports on an ongoing research project into the development of "Mobile Academy", an Androidbased mobile learning (mLearning) application (app). The project comprises three major phases: requirement analysis, application development and testing and evaluation. To satisfy the user requirement analysis, a detailed ethnographic study was conducted to investigate how people from different ...

Mobile devices, namely smart phones and tablets, have recently experienced remarkable proliferation. Beside private users, companies realize the potential of increasing the mobile productivity of their workforce. In this paper, we take a business-to-business perspective on mobile app stores by evaluating the potential of particular app stores for business-related apps. For this purpose, we firs...

The Bluetooth is a commonly known, convenient and famous communication protocol. In this paper, it is used to control LED mounted on Arduino test platform by using the APP of mobile phone. At first, the control program is completed by Arduino development software environment, then the Android APP is installed in mobile phone. Finally, by using the Bluetooth of mobile phone, the test platform wi...

Background: Students' educational success depends on various factors, one of the most important factor is applying appropriate study methods To achieve this, a mobile educational application called: "Appropriate study and learning practices for students" was designed by the researchers to investigate the effect of using educational mobile application on study habits for students' educational su...

Background Supporting the family and educating the parents helps them in taking care of their infants. Recent developments in mobile technology have created many opportunities to enhance people's health and welfare. The purpose of the study was to compare face-to-face education and education through Nonahal mobile app on neonatal weight gain and mother-neonate attachment in the NICU. Method: T...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although both anecdotal and academic sources have suggested that interpersonal recommendation is an important means to promote mobile applications (apps), little to no research has investigated this topic. To fill the void, we develop a research model based on the Customer Value, Satisfaction, and Loyalty Framework (VSL). While prior VSL studies treated customer value as a...

BACKGROUND Mobile phones and tablets currently represent a significant presence in people's everyday lives. They enable access to different information and services independent of current place and time. Such widespread connectivity offers significant potential in different app areas including health care. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to evaluate the usability of the Connect Mobile app. The mobile ...

Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets have been rapidly adopted worldwide. Mobile media are now the primary online connection for most individuals. Despite this rapid rise, theories of how mobile media relate to communication patterns and outcomes remain scarce. An affordances approach promises a high-level framework for researching how technologies such as mobile media are integr...