The aim of this contribution is to highlight a new, complex, challenging scenario involving the design discipline when working on the design of mobile applications. New challenging usability issues have to be faced, as well as the social and economic impact of the designed products. In this multifaceted context, design has the chance to play a key strategic role: relating to and cooperating wit...

Mobile app market is booming and will exceed $46 billion by 2016. In this paper, we take the perspective of developers. Based on data from two major app stores (Apple Store and Google Play), we construct an econometric model to investigate the factors influencing apps’ success in terms of revenue.

Mobile health (mHealth) technology has been proposed to alleviate the lack of sufficient medical resources for personal healthcare. However, usage difficulties and compliance issues relating to this technology restrict the effect of mHealth system-supported self-management. In this study, an mHealth framework is introduced to overcome these drawbacks and improve the outcome of self-management. ...

The multimodal application had been considered for promising mobile applications in early 2000. An industrial forum terminated its 7-year effort to make standardization of mobile multi-modal applications. Many researchers and industrial players still think mobile multimodal applications as rich opportunities of new services. The author attempts to analyze the gap between these two different asp...

This paper presents a taxonomy of mobile applications with accent on collaborative mobile applications. The development of mobile applications is described in comparison with the other types of informatics applications. Collaborative banking systems are presented in order to create the context in which the Collaborative Multicash Servicedesk (CMS) application will be integrated. The mobile appl...

This paper presents a workshop model that can be used to develop digital healthcare services in rural communities. The workshop model is based on a case study done in South Africa in the context of health-related information and communication services. Participants in this case study were semi-trained home-based health caregivers working in rural communities. The research was structured around ...

With rapid increase of technologies, we require faster medium for communication and accessing the information. For achieving this goal of connecting different users with each other or with the applications they require, first we need to find their locations. After detecting the location or location patterns we easily provide users with different services. However, mobile applications are requir...

In this paper we describe our work on developing and evaluating systems for providing assistance to visitors of distributed events. The range of required assistance is very broad: providing the user with information about the available events, user-specific event recommendations, support for planning a good sequence of events and finally assisting the user on his tour, taking into account his c...

This study attempts to find out students' expectations from mobile learning (m-learning) applications. The relationship between students' grade levels (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) and their preferred m-learning application characteristics were analyzed. A questionnaire on students' preferences in m-learning applications was used as the data collection instrument to 78 undergraduate stu...

An universal accessibility evaluation of the Moodle Mobile app from a study with 21 participants without disabilities is presented by assessing the emotional response to seven interaction design patterns and video analysis. Results show accessibility barriers identified during the execution of activities and implications of these barriers in the learning process.