1 MOTIVATION A June 2011 report1 showed that on average, a U.S. smartphone user spent 9% more time using apps (on smartphone) than browsing the Internet (on PC or smartphone). This growth in app usage is fueled by an increasingly large number of diverse and useful mobile apps: there are more than a million mobile apps available today in major app markets and around 15,000 apps are released per ...

Along with the growth of the smartphone market, the furnishing of diverse and plentiful mobile Apps is surfacing as the key competitiveness of smartphones. The mobile App market has been appraised as a competitive new market carrying huge potential. Although many users download and use paid and free Apps from App Store and App Market, relevant research regarding consumer app buying is virtually...

Due to the rapid development of social media and mobile technologies, more and more users access social media via mobile devices. Existing research focuses on user satisfaction with either social networking services or mobile applications. Perceived benefits, such as perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment, are important antecedents of user satisfaction with mobile applications in general....

Recently, mobile health care has been applied to manage diabetes requiring self-management. Health care by mobile applications (apps) has a great advantage when applied to patients with diabetes; the adherence to self-management activities for diabetes can be improved through mobile apps. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared and approved the use of some mobile apps as medical devi...

The potential and promise of mobile app development depends in large part on the creative capability of the app developer. In Africa, despite the explosion of mobile phones over the last few years, there is uncertainty regarding the state and need for more relevant apps. In this paper, we draw from a focus group discussion of African based experts and decision-makers from international agencies...

Mobile applications (also known as “apps”) have rapidly grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. Because they are available through devices that are “always on” and often with the user, users often adopt mobile apps “on the fly” as they need them. As a result, users often base their adoption and disclosure decisions only on the information provided through the mobile app delivery platform (e....

Android is becoming a platform for mobile health-care devices and apps. However, there are many challenges in developing soft real-time, health-care apps for non-dedicated mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In this paper, we share our experiences in developing the HifoCap app, a mobile app for receiving electroencephalogram (EEG) wave samples from a wearable device, visualizing the...

BACKGROUND There is a great need for dietary assessment methods that suit the adolescent lifestyle and give valid intake data. OBJECTIVE To develop a mobile phone app and evaluate its ability to assess energy intake (EI) and total energy expenditure (TEE) compared with objectively measured TEE. Furthermore, to investigate the impact of factors on reporting accuracy of EI, and to compare dieta...

BACKGROUND The well-being of breast cancer patients and reporting of adverse events require close monitoring. Mobile apps allow continuous recording of disease- and medication-related symptoms in patients undergoing chemotherapy. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of a mobile app on patient-reported daily functional activity in a supervised and unsupervised setting. ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of smoking among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other sexual minority (LGBTQ+) youth and young adults (YYA) is significantly higher compared with that among non-LGBTQ+ persons. However, in the past, interventions were primarily group cessation classes that targeted LGBTQ+ persons of all ages. mHealth interventions offer an alternate and modern intervention p...