BACKGROUND The use of mobile apps in health care is growing. Current and future practitioners must be equipped with the skills to navigate and utilize apps in patient care, yet few strategies exist for training health care professional students on the usage of apps. OBJECTIVE To characterize first-year pharmacy student use of medical apps, evaluate first-year pharmacy student's perception of ...

Effective marketing depends on knowledge of customer behavior and competition. This is especially true for location-based marketers who risk sending alerts at inopportune moments or to the wrong targets. This study analyzes check-ins around Times Square in New York City using Foursquare, a location-based mobile application. The findings reveal interesting patterns of certain consumer segments f...

This paper analyzes whether advertisers would be better off using data that would enable them to target users more accurately if the only way they could use this data is by sharing the data with all advertisers. I present a wide range of theoretical results that illustrate general circumstances under which an advertiser can be assured that sharing data will make the advertiser better off. I the...

In this position paper we present a procedure with which large volumes of video data can be automatically processed to extract only that which is salient given the current context of analysis. This technique is presented as an extension to Replayer: a software toolkit for use in the development cycle of mobile applications. By augmenting the cameras used to capture a mobile experiment we are ab...

Group communication will undoubtedly be a useful paradigm for many applications of wireless networking in which reliability and timeliness are requirements. Moreover, location-awareness is clearly central to mobile applications such as traffic management and smart spaces. In this paper, we introduce our definition of proximity groups in which group membership depends on location and then discus...

DS-TDMA/CP is a TDMA-based medium access protocol for cellular networks catering to multiple traffic classes with diverse QoS requirements. In contrast to other TDMA protocols for mobile applications, instead of trying to fit the offered traffic to the slot size, our solution adapts the slot size to the offered traffic. In consequence, as demonstrated by our performance studies, the proposed sc...

The upcoming mobile and ubiquitous computing world will need new forms of information sharing and services collaboration between mobile devices and wireless reachable application services to support mobile commerce. In this paper we present ezBusiness application architecture for mobile e-business in hybrid network environment. Six major components of the ezBusiness architecture are identified ...

Mobile devices have much potential to support older adults in their daily lives. However older adults have reported that they find mobile devices, such as existing mobile phones, difficult to learn to use. We argue that more research is needed to improve the learnability of mobile software applications for older adults. We present three different approaches for improving mobile device learnabil...

This is a study of mobile location estimation in three dimension space. We build up a 3-D signal propagation model, namely the three dimension Ellipse Propagation Model (3DEPM), which is an extension of the Ellipse Propagation Model(EPM) from our previous study [1]. Then we use a three dimension Geometric Algorithm (3-D Geometric Algorithm) to calculate the location of the Mobile Station(MS). T...