Mobile app market is booming and will exceed $46 billion by 2016. In this paper, we take the perspective of developers. Based on data from two major app stores (Apple Store and Google Play), we construct an econometric model to investigate the factors influencing apps’ success in terms of revenue.

BACKGROUND Medication adherence is an expensive and damaging problem for patients and health care providers. Patients adhere to only 50% of drugs prescribed for chronic diseases in developed nations. Digital health has paved the way for innovative smartphone solutions to tackle this challenge. However, despite numerous apps available claiming to improve adherence, a thorough review of adherence...

eHealth and mobile health (mHealth) offer patients, healthcare providers, researchers, and policy makers new potential to improve wellness, practice prevention and reduce suffering from diseases. While the eHealth market is growing to an expected US $26 billion, its potential in the field of Urology is still underused. Research has shown that currently only 176 apps (of the 300,000 medical apps...

With the abundance in variety of products available online, many online retailers provide sales rankings for available products to make it easier for the consumer to find popular products. Successful implementation of product rankings on online platform was done a decade ago by Amazon and more recently by Apple’s App store. However, none of these market providers provide actual do...

Players in the online ad ecosystem are struggling to acquire the user data required for precise targeting. Audience look-alike modeling has the potential to alleviate this issue, but models’ performance strongly depends on quantity and quality of available data. In order to maximize the predictive performance of our look-alike modeling algorithms, we propose two novel hybrid filtering technique...

This study explores the key activation factors of the mobile application development platform through a comparative analysis of Apple App Store and Samsung Apps platforms based on the information and communications technologies intensive service innovations (IISI) model from the developer’s perspective. We conducted intensive interviews of 14 mobile app developers who had development experience...

Singapore, an urbanized and populated country with high penetration of smartphones, provides an excellent base for citizen-centric participatory sensing applications. Mobile participatory sensing applications offer an efficient means of directing feedback to government agencies for timely identifying and solving problems of citizens’ concern. While real deployments of such applications are on a...