BACKGROUND There are an increasing number of mobile apps available for adolescents with mental health problems and an increasing interest in assimilating mobile health (mHealth) into mental health services. Despite the growing number of apps available, the evidence base for their efficacy is unclear. OBJECTIVE This review aimed to systematically appraise the available research evidence on the...

We present Mobipedia, an integrated knowledge base with information about 1 million mobile applications (apps) such as their category, meta-data (author, reviews, rating, release date), permissions and libraries used, and similar apps. The goal of Mobipedia is to integrate unstructured and semi-structured data about mobile apps from publicly available data sources and publish it as Linked Data ...

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....

The proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers has recently been extended to include a growing ecosystem of increasingly sophisticated chemistry software packages, commonly known as apps. The capabilities that these apps can offer to the practicing chemist are approaching those of conventional desktop-based software, but apps tend to be focused on a relatively smal...

Data sharing between mobile apps that are co-located in a smartphone may lead to synergistic benefits to the user especially in the health-care domain. Mobile apps that monitor and control user behavior can interact to engage the user into a healthy schedule over a long term. In the current app development paradigm, apps are being developed individually and agnostic of each other. To enable int...

Through the lens of rational addiction theory (Becker and Murphy, 1988), this study investigates whether addiction to mobile social apps should be viewed as a rational behavior rather than an uncontrollable, irrational disorder. To derive the analytical model, this study extends the rational addiction framework to include a utility-level network effect as the key factor that regulates the inter...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone health apps may now seem to be ubiquitous, yet much remains unknown with regard to their usage. Information is limited with regard to important metrics, including the percentage of the population that uses health apps, reasons for adoption/nonadoption, and reasons for noncontinuance of use. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine health app use among mobile ...

BACKGROUND There are a growing number of mobile phone apps available to support people in taking their medications and to improve medication adherence. However, little is known about how these apps differ in terms of features, quality, and effectiveness. OBJECTIVE We aimed to systematically review the medication reminder apps available in the Australian iTunes store and Google Play to assess ...

Popularity and pervasiveness of mobile apps have great potential to motivate healthy behavioural modifications. Considering the increased prevalence of obesity, overweight and sedentary lifestyle in modern societies, this study takes an important step in proposing design elements for fitness apps that can stimulate enhanced physical activity behaviour. We posit that persuasive technology princi...

Modern smart mobile devices offer media-rich and context-aware features that are highly useful for electronic-health (e-health) applications. It is therefore not surprising that these devices have gained acceptance as target devices for e-health applications, turning them into m-health (mobile-health) apps. In particular, many e-health application developers have chosen Apple’s iOS mobile devic...