The field of e-learning and self-learning has rapidly evolved during the past decade mainly because of major advances in telecommunications and information technologies, in particular the widespread use of web and mobile applications. Furthermore, the work environment conditions in most industries have become extremely demanding and competitive; therefore various forms of life-long learning app...

This paper presents a framework for evaluating the business value of mobile technology in the context of process transformation. It is argued that evaluating mobile applications must be done in that context. The proposed framework provides a starting point for companies to evaluate technology investment decisions in the context of enabling the enterprise for the next generation eBusiness practi...

To cite: BinDhim NF, Trevena L. BMJ Innov Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjinnov-2014000019 The uptake of smartphones is growing exponentially around the globe. 2 Their use by health consumers and healthcare professionals is increasing. Smartphone technology particularly impacts on health policy via two new challenges: (1) smartphone app stores can act as m...

Personal financial management is a critical step to help alleviate poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, there are few applications currently available that cater to this need in a specialized manner. TrackIt is a mobile application that integrates speech-to-text and natural language processing technologies to help users track cash transactions in an easy, fast, and unobtrusive manner...

Due to their characteristics, millennials prefer learning-by-doing and social learning, such as project-based learning. However, software development projects require not only technical skills but also creativity—Design Thinking can serve such purpose. We conducted a workshop— following the Design Thinking approach of the d.school—to help students generating ideas for a mobile app development p...

The number of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions (CHCs) has doubled over the past two decades. Medication adherence is a key component of disease management within these groups. Low adherence to prescribed medications is a known problem in adolescents with CHCs and is related to health outcomes, including quality of life, disease complications, and mortality. Adolescence is...

Overview With the advent of Smartphones as an emerging class of personal Internet capable devices, mobile applications, or apps, are rapidly becoming the corner stone of what defines the user's experience. While many of these apps will perform simple tasks on the phone, a new class of cloud-enabled applications is becoming more popular. These apps augment the smartphone's capabilities, allowing...

This research revisits the issue of software piracy in the emerging mobile apps market. The study seeks to empirically examine the controversial impact of piracy on the market performance of the legitimate apps. In particular, the study attempts to empirically examine how the presence (or absence) of free app affects the extent of piracy, and consequently, the adoption of the paid apps in the m...

Sensor data is crucial for mobile applications to support the user in the field. Several mobile applications are available for accessing such sensor data. However, a comprehensive approach for discovering such sensor data in the Sensor Web according to the user’s context (i.e. the location) has not been proposed yet. This article describes an approach for discovering data and services in the Se...

 In recent years, mobile networks have faced with the increase of traffic demand. By emerging mobile applications and cloud computing, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been introduced. In this research, we focus on the 4th and 5th generation of mobile networks. Data Centers (DCs) are connected to each other by high-speed links in order to minimize delay and energy consumption. By considering a ...