BACKGROUND Thousands of mobile health apps are now available for use on mobile phones for a variety of uses and conditions, including cancer survivorship. Many of these apps appear to deliver health behavior interventions but may fail to consider design considerations based in human computer interface and health behavior change theories. OBJECTIVE This study is designed to assess the presence...

Mobile smart-device ecosystems (e.g., iOS, Android) have democratized innovation and rejuvenated the mobile-device industry. Yet, two key participants of these ecosystems, developers and consumers, continue to face significant challenges. The market is inundated with more than a million apps making the discovery and assessment of apps a daunting task for consumers. The easy substitutability of ...

The availability to deploy mobile applications for health care is increasing daily thru different mobile app stores. But within these capabilities the number of hacking attacks has also increased, in particular into medical mobile applications. The security vulnerabilities in medical mobile apps can be triggered by errors in code, incorrect logic, poor design, among other parameters. This is us...

This study takes a design-based research approach to explore how applications designed for mobile devices could support reflection in learning in K-12 education. Use of mobile devices is increasing in schools. Most of the educational apps support single-person use of interactive learning materials, simulations and learning games. Apps designed to correspond to collaborative learning paradigms, ...

With the widespread adoption of smartphones, mobile applications have gained mainstream popularity. However, the potential privacy and security risks associated with using mobile apps are quite high, as smartphones become increasingly integrated with our lives, being able to access our email, social networking accounts, financial information, personal photos, and even our cars and homes. To add...

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...

With the widespread use of mobile systems, there is a growing demand for apps that can enable users to collaboratively use multiple mobile systems, including hardware device features such as cameras, displays, speakers, microphones, sensors, and input. We present M2, a system for multi-mobile computing by enabling remote sharing and combining of devices across multiple mobile systems. M2 levera...

BACKGROUND Headache diaries are often used by headache sufferers to self-monitor headaches. With advances in mobile technology, mobile electronic diary apps are becoming increasingly common. OBJECTIVE This review aims to identify and evaluate all commercially available mobile headache diary apps for the two most popular mobile phone platforms, iOS and Android. METHODS The authors developed ...

Mobile devices and applications carry a great deal of sensitive and personally identifiable information, which makes them very lucrative targets for attackers. Authentication on these devices is vulnerable to smudge attacks [1]. Furthermore, their small size, light weight, and ubiquity makes them easily stolen. According to the Cloud Security Alliance, data loss from lost, stolen, or decommissi...

BACKGROUND Heart failure is the most common cause of hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries and these hospitalizations are often driven by exacerbations in common heart failure symptoms. Patient collaboration with health care providers and decision making is a core component of increasing symptom monitoring and decreasing hospital use. Mobile phone apps offer a potentially cost-effe...