Mobile devices have integrated themselves in society where they are used naturally and invisibly by individuals. Despite the fact that these devices are available to teachers and learners, the traditional style of classes is still the dominant style. This research explores the utilization of mobile applications in traditional classroom settings, and how this affects students’ learning and engag...

BACKGROUND Evaluating the effect of treatment of tremor is mostly performed with clinical rating scales. Mobile applications facilitate a more rapid, objective, and quantitative evaluation of treatment effect. Existing mobile apps do not offer raw data access, which limits algorithm development. OBJECTIVE To develop a novel open-source mobile app for tremor quantification. METHODS TREMOR12 ...

We develop a two-sided market model that captures two unique features of the in-app mobile advertising market: the joint structure of the adverting platform and agency pricing for the app sales channel. In the joint structure of the mobile advertising platform, both the platform owner and the app developer jointly control the provisioning of ads compared to the platform owner alone in the tradi...

In this paper, we report a mobile application which translates Japanese texts in a scene into English. The application is designed to run on a mobile phone with a camera. It recognizes Japanese characters sensed by an onboard camera of a mobile phone and translates them into English.

the paper compares the findings coming from three case studies for the case of mobile data services and highlights factors that could explain the low usage rates among the users. The movement of applications from desktop platforms to wireless and mobile configurations may have a significant impact on future daily activities. Mobile computing supported by broadband wireless networks allows users...

This paper presents a prototype of a mobile application enhancing emotional and contextual awareness in distributed knowledge work teams. Emotional, contextual, and other types of data from users are collected both implicitly and explicitly. The benefits of such a system are hypothesized to include increased individual and group awareness, emotional awareness, location, taskand status awareness...

As mobile devices become prevalent, there is always a need for apps. How hard is it to develop an app, especially a cross-platform app? The paper shares an experience in a project that involved the development of a student services web app that can be run on cross-platform mobile devices. The paper first describes the background of the project, the clients, and the proposed solution. Then, it f...

BACKGROUND Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) account for a disproportionate burden of new HIV infections in the United States. Mobile technology presents an opportunity for innovative interventions for HIV prevention. Some HIV prevention apps currently exist; however, it is challenging to encourage users to download these apps and use them regularly. An iterative research...

Smartphone users have adopted an explosive number of mobile applications (a.k.a., apps) in the recent years. App marketplaces for iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms host millions of apps which have been downloaded for more than 100 billion times. Investigating how people manage mobile apps in their everyday lives creates a unique opportunity to understand the behavior and preferences of m...

This paper presents the development of a mobile application for students at the Faculty of Information Technology, Rangsit University (RSU), Thailand. RSU upgrades an enrollment process by improving its information systems. Students can download the RSU APP easily in order to access the RSU substantial information. The reason of having a mobile application is to help students to access the syst...