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Since the emergence of mobile apps, research has been conducted on the feasibility and benefits of mHealth services. However, there is no clear framework to guide development teams in best practices for building mHealth apps. In this paper we present and discuss the 55 Factors of the Perspective Process of a model that aims to support project teams in the development of mHealth apps aligned with institutional health needs and priorities. As an example of the viability of the model, the discussion is based on its application in the Regional Hospital of Cusco, Peru. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Patients receive medical treatment without being admitted to a hospital. They are not hospitalized for 24 hours or more but visit hospital, clinic or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment. But the problems of keeping their records for quick access by the management and provision of confidential, secure medical report that facilitates planning and decision making and hence improves medical service delivery are vital issues. This paper explores the challenges of manual patient records system for General Hospital infers solutions to the current challenges by designing an online outpatient's database system. The research paper describes about the readiness of patient, doctors, hospital, pathology lab and chemist in keeping and using the online patient database. The main method used for this research work is interview. Two (2) doctors, three (3) nurses on duty and two (2) staff at the record room were interviewed. Fifty (50) sampled outpatient records were collected Distortion of patient's folder and difficulty in searching a patient's folder, difficulty in relating previous complaint with the new complains because of volume of the folder, slow access to patient diagnosis history during emergency, lack of back up when an information is lost, and preparation of accurate and prompt reports make it become a difficult task as information is difficult to collect from various register. Based on the findings, this paper highlights the possible solutions to the above problems. An online patient database system was designed to keep the patients records and improve medical service delivery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial reasoning skills contribute to performance in many Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. There is considerable variation in the spatial reasoning skills of prospective engineering students, putting some at risk for compromised performance in their classes. This study takes place in a first-year engineering Spatial Visualization course. The course endeavors to integrate the use of current technology and online accessibility to bring about student growth in spatial reasoning. The study is designed to determine the effect of adding two different spatial reasoning training apps to this environment. Over 110 students (three sections) participated in our study. In one of the three sections, students completed interactive spatial visualization weekly assignment using a spatial visualization mobile sketching app. In another section they used an Augmented Reality (AR) app. The third section was a control group that completed traditional hand sketching assignments on paper. All course sections were required to use the apps or do the paper hand sketching assignments for approximately the same time in class and outside of class. Our first hypothesis that overall benefits (PSVT-R gains) will be comparable across the 3 treatments was corroborated. Results suggest that there was significant growth in measured spatial skills but not a significant difference between group treatments. We also hypothesized that the treatments will have different effects on male/female and ethnic categories of the study participants. This hypothesis was partially corroborated. This paper reports on the findings when using digital sketching and augmented reality mobile apps to improve spatial visualization skills of first-year engineering students identified with low spatial skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The possibilities to use telehealth in the treatment of patients have dramatically increased due to digitalization of health care and the availability of suitable end devices. Most telehealth research focuses on patients or on organizations (like hospitals), while the behaviour of physicians is often neglected. In life-style issues and in cases of mild, temporary diseases, patients often consult just the Internet or friends. In case of serious and chronic diseases, this is not possible and physicians continue to play an important role in the treatment process. Specialised physicians diagnose, monitor, and treat such diseases. They can play two roles in such cases. First, they may influence the patient's decision whether to use telehealth. Second, if the patients adopt the software, the physicians can further analyse the electronically available data with support of other parts of the software. In other words, they can reap further benefits from telehealth. This situation has barely been empirically analysed in information systems or healthcare research. Therefore, we develop a model to better understand the physicians' motivations to recommend the use of telehealth software to patients given his different roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main purpose of this study was to identify whether using digital technology such as apps can enhance Indigenous language learning. Currently there are less than 200 fluent speakers of Secwepemctsín; therefore, insights form this study will make a valuable contribution to the community efforts to revitalize the language. This study examined the effect of using two apps to teach Secwepemctsín to a group of elementary school children (N = 96). Indigenous children from K-7 were assigned to one of two conditions: (a) learning vocabulary related to clothes with the language teacher or (b) learning the same content playing with apps designed for the study to teach Secwepemctsin. Over a period of two weeks, each group had the opportunity to learn target vocabulary during 15-20 minutes, two times on different days. At the end of the lesson on the second day, children were tested on their learning using a multiple-choice vocabulary test. To identify further learning, all participants were tested a second time a few days later. Two separate analyses of variance were performed with vocabulary at time one and time two as outcome variables. Methods of instruction (apps versus teacher), and school level (primary versus intermediate) were fixed factors. Univariate analyses showed that at time 1, children performed similarly regardless of the condition or level. However, at time two there was a main effect for method of instruction and an interaction between method and level. Children in the upper grade level and the teacher only condition performed significantly better than children in the apps condition. This suggests that whereas children in the teacher condition continued to learn vocabulary over the teaching time but those in the apps condition did not. It is possible that the effect of the apps disappeared by the third lesson, whereas the teacher was able to continue innovating and engaging the children in learning. Implications for effective incorporation of language learning apps into teaching and for app design are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A new type of technology is becoming an education tool, the augmented reality. This tool is used in different category of education in order to facilitate learning. Together apps and other kind of tools like e-learning platforms can be used to promote learning through augmented reality. The purpose of our study is to investigate the possibilities of augmented reality to have a real contribution to the Romanian education system. The first part of the paper is highlighting the new trends in using augmented reality by other industries. The second part of the article is analyzing the perspective of improving learning process in the Romanian higher education system operating with augmented reality. The last part of the study is presenting the challenges in using this technology found through the realized quantitative study. The questionnaire presents the students attraction to those combined technologies. The sample gathered 164 students and it has been used as tool the online survey methods. A real interest of our research was to discover the augmented reality technology used but most of all how can be used in a learning activity. The research underlined the limits but also the advantages in using this kind of technologies and the specific interactions of this tool with e-learning platforms but also with other kind of tools. The reported results presented the enthusiasm and flexibility of the students in using such tools based especially on their experience of using apps and on their gaming experiences. Finally, we address different chances of research taking into consideration the limits but also the possibilities of the future for augmented reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart phone adoption has grown across the globe and Indian is no exception to this growth. Approximately three out of every four smart phone users in India is now using mobile social networking apps. Mobile applications (apps) have been gaining rising popularity among millennials due to the advances in mobile technologies and the large increase in the number of mobile user's base. Consequently, several app distribution platforms, which provide a new way for developing, downloading, and updating software applications in modern mobile devices, have recently emerged. A mobile application is a software application designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices. They are usually available through application distribution platforms, which are typically operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World or through developers own websites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the course TDT4140 Software Engineering at NTNU in 2017 students worked in groups of 4 to propose ideas and make limited prototypes for software apps that could revolutionize university education. This paper analyses what kind of apps the students proposed, and what this may tell us about the student view of shortcomings in current university education. The main findings are that the students' ideas mainly gathered on a few types of apps: calendar and progress tracking (e.g., keeping track of lecture and seminar times, exercise deadlines, etc.), Q&A / discussion forums, lecture interaction apps, and quiz apps either for the teacher to test students or for student self-testing. The analysis indicates that many students see lack of student-teacher interaction as an important challenge. Somewhat related, many students are uncertain of their progress during the semester and want more frequent feedback. Technology is seen as a possible enabler for solving both these challenges. Towards the end, the paper also speculates how the project might have been done differently if it had been important that the students come up with more revolutionary ideas, as the resulting ideas in this project were mainly for incremental improvements of existing ways of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to research findings, learners who are about to commence an undergraduate degree course with English as the medium of instruction (EMI), require a minimum English vocabulary size in order to decode and comprehend the academic texts that they have to read (Hazenberg and Hulstijn, 1996; Staehr, 2008; Laufer and Ravenhorst-Kalovski, 2010; Schmitt, 2010; Nation, 2013, Milton and Treffers-Daller, 2013). In the United Arab Emirates, several thousand Emirati students attend English foundation programmes prior to starting their EMI degrees in order to improve their academic skills, such as reading and vocabulary knowledge. However, despite the increased use of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and the introduction of mobile learning in 2012, the results of this study show that the vast majority of female Emirati still have an insufficient receptive vocabulary size for beginning an EMI undergraduate degree course. In addition, the use of a generic vocabulary learning app over a four-month period has not led to a significant increase in most students' vocabulary size. The reasons for this could include the fact that the generic app does not fully utilise the affordances of mobile learning, it is not underpinned by pedagogically-sound vocabulary learning principles and that it does not focus on the particular learning needs and lexical weakness of Emirati students. Therefore, the author has worked as part of a team to develop and build a new, customised, mobile app that has attempted to address these weaknesses and help Zayed University students reach the required vocabulary learning goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nowadays, there is a great opportunity for mobile Health using different devices and platforms. A significant number of Health applications have been already developed for those platforms. According to WHO's latest update (2004) of the Global Burden of Disease, between the most prevalent conditions are iron-deficiency anemia, hearing loss, migraine, low vision, asthma, diabetes mellitus, and others. In this paper, a review of mobile apps available for different conditions and prevalent diseases will be shown. The search focuses on commercial applications in platforms such as Google Play by Android, iTunes App Store by Apple, etc. from July to September 2015. A total of 2840 applications have been found valid in different mobile platforms. Diabetes is the disease with the greatest number of apps, mainly in Google Play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper is concerned with how two design processes that are seemingly very similar, human-computer interaction design and design thinking, affect innovation in the context of an academic library. Twenty different multidisciplinary projects involving advanced students of interaction design, researchers and library employees, using either of these two approaches or their combination, were conducted during the past four years. We chose two projects that we consider as illustrative of overall findings, in particular, regarding outcomes for diverse stakeholders. Both projects were focusing on the same problem, which many academic (and public) libraries face, of accessing library's e-book collections and making doing so more enjoyable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a result of various industry regulations service providers such as websites and app developers are required to explain the ways in which they process the personal data of service users. These "privacy disclosures", which aim to inform users and empower them to control their privacy, take several forms. Among these forms are the privacy policy, the cookie notice and, on smart phones, the app permission request. The interaction problems with these different types of disclosure are relatively well understood - habituation, inattention and cognitive biases undermine the extent to which user consent is truly informed. User understanding of the actual content of these disclosures, and their feelings toward it, are less well understood, though. In this paper we report on a mixed-methods study that explored these three types of privacy disclosure and compare their relative merits as a starting point for the development of more meaningful consent interactions. We identify four key findings - heterogeneity of user perceptions and attitudes to privacy disclosures, limited ability of users to infer data processing outputs and risks based on technical explanations of particular practices, suggestions of a naïve model of "cost justification" rather cost-benefit analysis by users, and the possibility that consent interactions are valuable in themselves as a means to improve user perceptions of a service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, we highlight a potential privacy threat in the current smartphone platforms, which allows any third party to collect a snapshot of installed applications without the user's consent. This can be exploited by third parties to infer various user attributes similar to what is done through tracking. We show that using only installed apps, user's gender, a demographic attribute that is frequently used in targeted advertising, can be instantly predicted with an accuracy around 70%, by training a classifier using established supervised learning techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobile devices are becoming indispensable tools for many students and educators. Mobile technology is starting a new era in the computing methodologies in many engineering disciplines. Students and scientists are becoming more interested in learning how to develop their own applications on mobile platforms. This paper presents an innovation in teaching and learning principals of Android-based Java programming. A course material is developed “Introduction to Programming Java on a Mobile Platform” to teach novice programmers how to create applications in shorter than traditional time. This work also provides techniques for instructors with modest programming background to teach cutting edge technology, which is smartphone programming. Techniques developed in this work minimize unnecessary information carried into current teaching approaches with hands-on practice. It also helps the students with minimal background requirements overcome the barriers that have evolved around computer programming. The motivation of this work is to create a tailored programming introductory course to teach Java programming on Android by incorporating selected efficient methods from extant literature. The proposed mechanism is to keep students motivated by an active approach based on student-centered learning with collaborative work. Teamwork through pair programming is adapted in this teaching process. Bloom's taxonomy, along with a knowledge survey, is used as a guide to classify the information and exercise problems. A prototype curriculum is a main deliverable of this work that is suitable for novice programmers-such as engineering freshmen students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A GUI-based mobile control console for digital conference system, is introduced in this paper. Most mobile control consoles of digital conference systems require additional hardware implementation. However, this work uses an existing smart phone (iphone) without any additional hardware, which means the proposed mobile control console implemented in apple's iphone with application software written on the iOS SDK platform. Therefore, this work aims to propose a convenient approach without the cost of additional hardware to achieve wireless remote control to a graphical control software platform for our developed digital conference systems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In recent years, sleep apnea syndrome is considered an important research direction in sleep medicine. According to statistics, the disease prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is more than 3% of the total population and even up to 25% for 40-aged men. More and more clinical evidences showed that obstructive sleep apnea is highly associated with hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, nocturnal enuresis, and even depression. If we can detect the potential OSA patients early, and offering them appropriate treatments, it is worth not only promoting the quality of patients¡¦ life, but also reducing the possible serious complications and medical costs. Mobile phones are now playing an ever more crucial role in people¡¦s daily lives. The latest generation of smart phones is increasingly viewed as handheld computers rather than as phones, due to their powerful on-board computing capability, capacious memories, large screens and open operating systems that encourage applications (Apps) development. In this study, an intelligent "OSA prediction App" on Android Smart phone has been developed based on medical decision rules from a clinical large dataset. The proposed application can provide an easy and efficient way to quickly pre-screen high-risk groups of OSA potential patients, aid medical works to achieve early diagnosis and treatment purposes, prevent the occurrence of complications, and thus reach the goal of preventive medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Our Closing the App Gap research project, examines the use of tablets, apps, and e-books in public libraries as a tool against summer reading loss in primary-grades children in underserved communities. Children in low-income families are less likely to meet important reading milestones, and they are particularly likely to suffer from summer reading loss, the setback of skills over the long summer vacation. As we already know, this loss can be addressed by summer reading programs in public libraries. Additionally, as digital media grows in importance, the resource disparity between affluent families and lowerincome families becomes even more pronounced, with a digital divide effect that shapes the experience of emergent readers. One 2011 study indicated that 55% of children eight and younger from families earning $75k or more per year have access to a smartphone, iPod/phone, or tablet, while in families earning $30,000 or less, only 22% of children have similar access. With apps a growing part of the educational landscape, increased access is advantageous. This approach brings new tools in the fight against summer reading loss, enhances technological literacy, and mitigates the effect of the digital divide on children in lower-income families. Our poster will discuss the various aspects of our research, including: our greatest challenges, the creation of a model that can help other public libraries use apps and tablets with children, our proposed multi-site project that builds on what we've learned, and the potential ramifications of closing the digital divide and improving literacy for every child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last decade has seen tremendous proliferation of mobile computing in our society. Billions of users have access to millions of mobile apps that can be installed directly on their mobile devices, electrical appliances, and watches. Factors such as new monetization/revenue models, programming models, and distribution infrastructures contribute to an "attractive" movement that captivates new and traditional developers, as well as a crowd of other professionals that explore, design, and implement mobile apps. Also, the need for "enterprise apps" that support start-ups or serve as a new front-end for traditional companies is pushing software-related professionals to embrace mobile technologies. However, the nature of the economy (devices, apps, markets) imposes new challenges on how mobile apps are envisioned, designed, implemented, tested, released, and maintained. This technology briefing aims to help address the challenges of testing and maintaining mobile apps by providing participants from both academic and industrial backgrounds with information on the state-of-art and state-ofpractice mobile testing techniques. Specifically, we aim to (i) highlight new techniques and methodologies for making effective automated testing of mobile apps practical and accessible to developers; and (ii) discuss open academic research questions related to such technology transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to derive meaningful implications on the antecedents and consequence of consumers' satisfaction towards Apps usage. Both utilitarian and hedonic views are incorporated into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Further discussions and results will be provided for theoretical and practical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Studies show that current modes of psychoeducation (PE) cannot be availed of by a substantial population of those in need. Mobile health technologies have great potential to serve such populations. However converting PE to mobile platforms is challenging. We present a methodology for this purpose based on existing learning styles theory, and developed PE apps successfully, using it. Conclusion: Useful PE apps can be developed easily using the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is pushing for increased clarity about healthcare charges because of the complexity of medical billing. Consequently, the release in May 2013 of the national summary of Medicare Provider Charge Data for the Top 100 Diagnosis-Related Groups was made public. Similar state-level initiatives to provide information to the public about healthcare charges date back to the 1990s. Beginning in 1995 in Texas, the Texas Health Collection Information Center has collected claims data containing charge information from all Texas hospitals. As a result, hospital claim charge data for Medicare patients treated in Texas is recorded and stored electronically by two different entities, one federal, and one state. These two data repositories can now be compared for consistency. The purpose of this research is to analyze empirical data concerning the consistency of the reported information in these two repositories and to articulate these methods for future use. The research includes four aims: The first aim compares data for the year 2011 from the131 hospitals that report to both repositories, the Texas Health Collection Information Center - Texas Hospital Discharge Data Public Use Data Files and the Medicare Provider Charge Data, to assess whether reporting requirements for the same variables match between these two datasets. For matching comparison groups from those 131 hospitals, a Bland-Altman analysis is used to compare discharge numbers and a multilevel fixed-effect regression model is used to test for agreement of average total covered charges and to identify any statistically significant differences in the comparison of THCIC to MPCD. The second aim examines the trends of inconsistencies by hospital characteristics, acute care hospitals with specialty units, and teaching status. The third aim is to determine the role of stewardship theory on reporting accuracy. The fourth aim articulates the methods used for these processes as a step towards developing future metrics. The baseline consistency check reveals a strong level of agreement in the number of reported discharges, and a strong positive correlation between the THCIC and Medicare reported data. The results of the second and third aims show that acute care hospitals with skilled nursing facilities and teaching hospitals have 6.3% and 11.6% less accuracy than acute care hospitals without skilled nursing units and non-teaching hospitals when reporting discharges to the THCIC. The results of this research validate the consistency of Texas reported average total covered charge data to the THCIC and reinforce current oversight efforts, while advancing the development of reporting accountability metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]