Design Of Mobile Application Research Articles

Compact Wideband MIMO Diversity Antenna for Mobile Applications Using Multi-Layered Structure

A closely packed wideband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)/diversity antenna (of two ports) with a small size of less than 18.5 mm by 18.5 mm is proposed for mobile communication applications. The antenna can be orthogonally configured for corner installation or by placing it on a back-to-back structure for compact modules. To enhance the isolation and widen the bandwidth, the antenna is structured with multiple layers having differing dielectric constants. The feeding through a via significantly reduces the ground waves. A multi-fidelity surrogate model-assisted design exploration method is employed to obtain the optimized antenna geometric parameters efficiently. The antenna design was investigated using electromagnetic simulation and a physical realization of the optimal design was then created and subjected to a range of tests. The specific parameters investigated included reflection coefficients, mutual coupling between the input ports, radiation patterns, efficiency and parameters specific to MIMO behavior: envelope correlation coefficient and pattern diversity multiplexing coefficient. It was found that the antenna has an impedance bandwidth of approximately 4 GHz, mutual coupling between input ports of better than −18 dB and an envelope correlation coefficient of less than 0.002 across the operating band. This makes it a good candidate design for many mobile MIMO applications.

Ubiquitous Learning Environment for Smart Improving Disruption Activities in Classroom on Media

Smart learning emphasizes the educational needs of students learning to grow smarter as a result of an intelligent environment. Universities should have the right strategy through the utilization of limited resources, especially with regard to human resources. Objective research offers the benefits of learning in the form of influence over these resources are limited and focused on the use of online learning to support learning through class room facility improvements with a medium of learning through virtual environments and utilize technology and multimedia content adaftive cameras in some areas. The research method using descriptive experimental method in the fifth stage of design and product development of mobile applications in the form of a waterfall model through a needs analysis devices and digital facilities

Usability Evaluation for User Interface Design of Application for Recommender System to Enhance the Potential of Community-Based Tourism in Phatthalung, Thailand

User experience and user interface design are the important processes in software design and development, especially in the design of mobile applications, which must support the growing needs of users. Moreover, the community tourist attractions in Phatthalung Province are still lack of important information for community enterprises and tourist attractions that offers information matched the needs of users. This research, therefore, aimed to create a user interface design on mobile devices by using user experience, and to study the format of the Application for Intelligent Recommender System to enhance the Potential of Community-Based Tourism in Phatthalung so as to support the work of designers. This research compared the 3 models of UI and evaluated the heuristic of user interface to assure that the proposed format conforms to the basic operations of the user interface. The results showed that most users liked visual presentations from Model 1 and the presentation of tourist attractions with maps suggesting trips to tourist attractions including having media related to the community which helped to attract tourists.

Knowledge Transfer through Mobile Application Needs Questionnaire: Validity and Reliability

Introduction: Knowledge transfer through mobile application needs assessment to develop a user-friendly technology. However, the means to measure the need is unavailable. An instrument was developed from the Joanna Briggs new model of EBP to examine the nurses’ needs. This study aims to examine the reliability and validity of knowledge transfer through mobile application needs questionnaire for nurses. Methods: The validity of the questionnaire was examined for its content with Content Validity Index (CVI). CVI was measured for its relevance, ambiguity, clarity and simplicity on each item (I-CVI) and scale (S-CVI). Content validity assessment forms and guidelines were given to six experts in nursing and computer sciences. Their suggestions contributed to the questionnaire revision. Subsequently, the online questionnaire was completed by 40 nurses randomly selected in a hospital in Depok City. Internal consistency was analyzed for the reliability. Results: The CVI of this questionnaire is high with mean of I-CVI and S-CVI at 0.96 relevance, 0.98 ambiguity, 0.97 clarity and 0.94 simplicity. Cronbach’s alpha shows that the internal consistency is acceptable (0.87). Conclusion: The questionnaire is content valid and reliable. This questionnaire can be used to measure those needs and contribute to the design of a user-friendly mobile application.

Analisis Pengaruh Kelengkapan Fitur dan Desain Navigasi Aplikasi Perbankan Berbasis Mobile Terhadap User Experience Nasabah Individu pada PT Bank Central Asia Tbk

The goal of this research was to find whether feature completeness and navigation design of mobile banking applications developed by PT Bank Central Asia Tbk have a significant impact to its individual customers' user experience. This research was conducted by using questionnaire, in which the population was all the individual customers of PT Bank Central Asia Tbk, while the sample was the 162 (one hundred and sixty-two) respondents who submitted the questionnaire. By using the multiple regression analysis and hypothesis test, it was found that both feature completeness and navigation design of mobile banking applications developed by PT Bank Central Asia Tbk have a positive and significant impact to its individual customers' user experience.

Design of Dayak Kanayatn Language Learning Mobile Applications Using Gamification

Preservation of regional languages is very important in the current globalization era. The longer the erosion of regional languages will make the younger genera-tion do not know the language inherited from their ancestors. The fewer the speakers and interest in learning will make the Regional Language endangered. The purpose of this study is to design the learning of regional languages, espe-cially for children aged 9-10 years with the principles of pedagogy. The method of gamification uses a mobile-based application in the form of video, quiz games, and visual images. This regional language learning design is called Enggang Ka-nayatn Quiz (EKQ). The lesson material will be given first, then continued with a quiz. The material in the form of daily sentences and the introduction of cultural wisdom. The result is a mobile-based application that can be used by children for the learning of regional languages with the pedagogy principle. The collected points will get an attractive reward. The contribution made through this paper is to motivate children to learn regional languages so that they will maintain cultural wisdom and regional language dances, especially Dayak Kanayatn.

Consumer behavior and customer relationship management in mental health services

Mental health services are perceived differently in different socio-cultural settings. The connotations accorded to mental health, especially in terms of need awareness and evaluation of alternatives, vary from culture to culture. Understanding these differences is critical to attract and retain patients suffering from mental conditions. Generic literature on consumer behavior does not provide direct answers to many of the problems in this regard, primarily because such literature does not take into account the deviant mental states of these patients. In this paper, we review findings from mental health specific studies conducted in both Western and Asian countries, evaluate the importance of decision-making factors for both public and private service providers, and offer directions for future research. Interdisciplinary literature on customer relationship management, consumer behavior, mental health, and healthcare marketing, guided by the principles of systematic literature review constituted the methodology of this study. The research methods are analysis, synthesis, classification and grouping. The empirical base included about 250 peer-reviewed articles on the topic under consideration. We find that doctor-led service provision is still the most prevalent form of relationship building in the Eastern societies, especially in the less developed countries of South East Asia. Consumer-initiated mental health treatment schemes are more common in more developed Western economies. We also observe that, among the innovative set of providers, there is a trend of increased use of telehealth. Among other things, this includes more proactive and digitally-savvy identification, acquisition, and retention of patients. The results of the study can be used as the basis for marketing strategies of drug manufacturers and mobile application designers in the field of online medical services.

Design of Mobile Application for Community Health Workers: A Case Study in Rwanda

Community health workers (CHWs) are the basis of public health services that aim to connect the gap between public health and the human service system. This gap can be completely bridged by navigating the health and human service systems and educating communities on disease prevention. Unfortunately, the way of sharing, accessing information, and delivering health services is still non-digitalized in Rwanda. Community Health workers use a manual system in their daily activities, which is prone to error and falsification. Moreover, these people selected to perform these activities often do not have adequate knowledge about diseases and health systems since they are not professional health workers. To address the above problem, we designed a prototype mobile application to enable these workers to automatically submit reports, transfer knowledge, share information, and receive training from professionals. The design process followed a User-Centered Design approach to meet the users’ requirements. The evaluation of the design showed that 91.7% of the CHWs agreed with the designed application prototype. This finding shows that CHWs has an interest in using the mobile application in their work. Using the mobile application will help CHWs to improve data collection, the reporting process, and ease of receiving training.

Multi-objective optimisation of user experience in mobile application design via a grey-fuzzy-based Taguchi approach

User experience is a key quality of mobile application design. It involves all aspects of human–computer interactions, and thus the optimisation of user experience is a multi-objective optimisation problem. User experience is subjective and uncertain; however, very little attention has been directed toward this issue when optimising user experience. In this article, a grey-fuzzy-based Taguchi approach is proposed to optimise user experience in mobile application design. Design analysis is first conducted to determine mobile design patterns and user experience characteristics. Next, a Taguchi experiment is executed, and then the signal-to-noise ratios are computed. After that, the signal-to-noise ratios are transformed into a multi-response performance index via a grey-fuzzy-based analysis. Finally, based on the multi-response performance index, the optimal design is achieved by using statistical analysis. A mobile health application design was employed to illustrate the proposed approach. The results indicate that this approach can effectively manage the subjectivity and uncertainty concerning user experience characteristics, and can be used as a general robust design approach for optimising user experience of mobile application design.

Role-Playing Computer Ethics: Designing and Evaluating the Privacy by Design (PbD) Simulation

There is growing consensus that teaching computer ethics is important, but there is little consensus on how to do so. One unmet challenge is increasing the capacity of computing students to make decisions about the ethical challenges embedded in their technical work. This paper reports on the design, testing, and evaluation of an educational simulation to meet this challenge. The privacy by design simulation enables more relevant and effective computer ethics education by letting students experience and make decisions about common ethical challenges encountered in real-world work environments. This paper describes the process of incorporating empirical observations of ethical questions in computing into an online simulation and an in-person board game. We employed the Values at Play framework to transform empirical observations of design into a playable educational experience. First, we conducted qualitative research to discover when and how values levers—practices that encourage values discussions during technology development—occur during the design of new mobile applications. We then translated these findings into gameplay elements, including the goals, roles, and elements of surprise incorporated into a simulation. We ran the online simulation in five undergraduate computer and information science classes. Based on this experience, we created a more accessible board game, which we tested in two undergraduate classes and two professional workshops. We evaluated the effectiveness of both the online simulation and the board game using two methods: a pre/post-test of moral sensitivity based on the Defining Issues Test, and a questionnaire evaluating student experience. We found that converting real-world ethical challenges into a playable simulation increased student’s reported interest in ethical issues in technology, and that students identified the role-playing activity as relevant to their technical coursework. This demonstrates that roleplaying can emphasize ethical decision-making as a relevant component of technical work.

A Mobile Application Design to Prevent Criminal Acts in Lima, Peru

A Mobile Application Design to Prevent Criminal Acts in Lima, Peru

A taxonomy design for mobile applications in the Spanish political communication context

The new mobile ecosystem that now defines the so-called mobile society and the mobile culture is already a key territory for contemporary political communication. Within this culture, mobile applications have become a common ground for the meeting between organisations and citizens interested in participating in political matters through the direct experience that these platforms allow. Despite this development, it is difficult to find a complete and reliable taxonomy of apps in the academic or professional literature that analyses how these relationships impact the field of political communication. This study tries to address this gap, introducing the first systematic taxonomy of political communication apps in Spain based on the development of a self-produced taxonomical model that gathers in detail all the variables required to understand the nature of these applications that are available for any smartphone. This rigorous taxonomy comprises political communication applications available at the main app stores (about 316 found in Play Store and App Store). Specifically, the methodological classification was elaborated based on the following categories: promoter agent, app objective, level of interaction, level of autonomy and predominant tone. A very complete picture was obtained from the empirical analysis, which defines and explains the landscape of political communication applications for mobile devices in Spain.

Classification and Improvement Strategy for Design Features of Mobile Tourist Guide Application: A Kano-IPA Approach

An increasing number of people are using mobile applications to obtain travel-related information and activities due to the prosperity of the internet and mobile technologies nowadays. The design, development, and improvement of mobile tourist guide application (MTGA) are particularly important for travel-related companies. As an emerging application scenario of mobile technologies in the field of tourism, existing research on MTGA lacks analysis of its specific design, especially from the perspective of users to investigate the microscopic design features and improvement strategies. The Kano model was adopted by prior studies to analyse product quality attribute, while importance-performance analysis (IPA) was used to prioritize quality attributes for improvement. However, due to the limitation of the Kano model in neglecting the attribute performance and importance and the weakness of IPA in considering only the one-dimensional quality attributes, the use of single approach has its shortcomings for analysing the design features of MTGA. We attempt to integrate Kano model and IPA to conduct a study on the classification and improvement strategy issues for the design features of MTGA. Particularly, we identify design features of MTGA first, propose a method to classify them, and determine their priorities for developing and improving as well. An online questionnaire survey is conducted. The paper extends research on Kano model and IPA into the domain of mobile application design and provides insights into management strategies about the design of MTGA, which also offers novel and important implications for travel-related companies to increase the users’ satisfaction by optimizing their mobile application design.

Design and implementation of social gathering management mobile application

Objectives: To propose a mobile application (Jam@), which means gathering in Arabic, to provide a solution to fill the gap in social and lifestyle applications for organizing events or gatherings, especially in Arabic. Methods: Jam@ (which means gatherings) was developed as an Android mobile application in Arabic. It was evaluated through different system and user acceptance tests. Findings: The results of the tests were promising, and the application has potential as a small entrepreneur project. Keywords: Gatherings; Social events; Event planning; Mobile applications

Implementing Location-Based Cryptography on Mobile Application Design to Secure Data in Cloud Storage

This paper aims to identify security issues and existing solutions for cloud storage protection and to propose a mobile application design for securing data in cloud storage using the location-based cryptographic technique. In the proposed mobile application design, the user is required to perform the encryption before sending the data into the cloud storage. This paper provides a novel technique using location-based cryptography, secret keyword and hash function in order to further enhance the security of data in cloud storage that is currently only using either asymmetric or symmetric encryption algorithm. Asymmetric encryption’s has high security but due to the complexity in its computing, the performance rate is low while symmetric encryption’s performance is much faster as its implementation is easy. However, the attacker can still hack the data in cloud storage when either one of this encryption methods being used alone without any additional security layer. In this paper, location-based cryptography technique used consists of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and location information which are longitude and latitude coordinates. Those coordinates will be employed in the encryption and decryption process as additional security mechanism on top of existing cryptography method by generating supplementary encryption key called geo-lock key. Dynamic Toleration Distance (DTD) protocol will also be implemented with those coordinates to improve its practicality before it will be converted into the geo-lock key. AES algorithm will handle encryption and decryption process using the geo-lock key while secret keyword which defined by the user before starting the process will be used to authenticate the upload and downloading process. Both geo-lock key and secret keyword will be hashed using Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA 2) and stored together with encrypted file in the cloud storage. The purpose of using location information is to ensure the encrypted file can be decrypted at intended location only while hash function is employed to protect the keys when they are stored in cloud storage. As a result, any unauthorized access to the file in cloud storage will not be allowed since each stored file was encrypted by the high performance of AES algorithm together with the decryption’s location restriction and the non-reversable hashed keys. The proposed mobile application design will serve an improvement in protecting stored data at cloud storage by using AES algorithm with location information as data encryption method and SHA 2 function for hashing the keys.

Research on Experience Design Optimization of Mobile Reading Based on Continuous Using Behaviour

[Purpose / Meaning] The rich tools and media forms of mobile reading, while improving the convenience of reading, are also accompanied by the difficulty of maintaining the user’s concentration, and tend to be superficial reading experiences. How to use interaction design to improve the user’s reading experience and then cultivate its deep reading ability is of great significance to promote the quality of mobile reading services.[Methods / Processes]Guided by promoting users’ continuous use behaviours, this paper adopts an empirical research method in the form of questionnaires and conducts relevant regression analysis on the recovered questionnaire data to explore the influencing factors and influencing path of mobile reading applications on user cognitive experience and behavioural results. [Results / Conclusions] The factors extracted by factor analysis are classified into three categories: independent variables (content, function, interaction, vision), and intermediate variables (perceived usefulness, flow experience, reading social experience, perceived value) and outcome variables (adoption and continuous using behaviour). Furthermore, via the path analysis, this paper builds the influential factor path model on mobile reading behaviour. Based on the final empirical research results, this paper proposes specific interactive optimization strategies for mobile reading application design around Internet product design.

Perancangan Desain User Interface Dan User Experience Pada Aplikasi Jasa Pengangkutan Sampah Trash Care

Over time, waste production increases every day. This is due to the increasing number of products, population and consumption patterns of people. In addition, the lack of public awareness of waste disposal can lead to severe pollution. For example in the city of Medan, which produces 2,000 tons of garbage every day. Medan is a city that is affected by the lack of good waste management. In order to overcome the increase in waste generation, waste generation from the source must be reduced through waste management. The presence of Android can facilitate everyday activities such as the Trash Care application, which can help fight waste. This research focuses on designing the user interface (UI) and user experience design (UX) of the Trash Care application based on ease of use, efficiency, and ease of use for the user. In this study, the process and the data acquisition methods of the trash care application are explained using the documentation using the UCD method. The results of this study are in the form of an application interface design that is tailored to the needs of users. The user interface design for mobile applications is expected to increase user interest in waste disposal and public knowledge of the distinction between organic and inorganic waste.

Intelligent Mobile Applications: A Systematic Mapping Study

Smart mobiles as the most affordable and practical ubiquitous devices participate heavily in the enhancement of our daily life by the use of many convenient applications. However, the significant number of mobile users in addition to their heterogeneity (different profiles and contexts) obligates developers to enhance the quality of their apps by making them more intelligent and more flexible. This is realized mainly by analyzing mobile user’s data. Machine learning (ML) technology provides the methodology and techniques needed to extract knowledge from data to facilitate decision-making. Therefore, both developers and researchers affirm the benefits of combining ML techniques and mobile technology in several application fields as e-health, e-learning, e-commerce, and e-coaching. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to have an overview of the use of ML techniques in the design and development of mobile applications. Therefore, we performed a systematic mapping study of papers published on this subject in the period between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2019. A total number of 71 papers were selected, studied, and analyzed according to the following criteria, year, sources and channel of publication, research type, and methods, kind of collected data, and finally adopted ML models, tasks, and techniques.

User Experience Based Mobile Application Design for Boat Loaning at Marine Tourism in Indonesia

<strong>Introduction</strong>: Boat loaning in marine tourism in Indonesia significantly impacts the continuity of tourism activities. It is because some nautical tourism destinations in Indonesia use ships as a means of transportation that cannot be separated from tourism activities. The problem is, there is a lack of information availability for examples event information, destination, and access for boat loaning. That makes it difficult for tourists to be able to enjoy marine tourism. <strong>Purpose</strong>: Therefore, the use of this study is to design a prototype of a mobile application that can help overcome the problem of limited information and access to marine tourism transportation, and be able to answer the needs of tourists regarding tourist information using the user experience as a design system. <strong>Method</strong>: The user experience method will be applied in application design testing, to obtain development aspects in the ship transportation ordering application, according to user needs. <strong>Result</strong>: The results of this study are the prototype design based on the user experience. The final result shows 87.5% response agree with this prototype design. <strong>Contribution</strong>: This study applies the method of boat loaning by utilising cooperation between agents and ship providers to provide Ease of access to information on marine tourism transportation to prospective tourists.

UI DESIGN APLIKASI MOBILE E-TIKET PT.NPM

Designing UI Design mobile Application e-ticket PT. NPM aims to increase the promotion, quality and user transportation of the company PT. NPM. This app is expected to assist in carrying out a ticket purchase transaction which can be used by any person anywhere and anytime. The glass box method is a logical and rational thinking method used in designing the UI Design of PT. E-Ticket mobile application. NPM. This NPM Mobile app is designed with a good UI with a nice layout, so users are comfortable and the application is usable when used. The NPM Mobile app has the main content, i.e. ticket messages and supporting content i.e., deals, points, vouchers and refunds. The content is well organized and neatly grouped, so users easily know the information needed. The process of problem solving, SWOT analysis is used (Strenght, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) to find the solution of the problems encountered. To get information, observe and interview the user's head. Author eligibility tests do to some samples to determine deserving and usable in the application that the author designed. In the results of the first feasibility test almost all samples say less satisfied with the appearance of the application, which related to the layout is still messy, the font size Kuran pas and navigation buttons too small. The author further repairs and performs a second feasibility test. The result of this agility test is satisfactory, the sample says very fond of the entire look of the application. So this NPM Mobile app UI is already decent and useble used. To support major media, made supporting media, motion graphic, x-banner, poster, T-shirt, Totebag, keychains and sticker.Keyword : Mobile application, bis transportation, user interface