Mobile Application Development Process Research Articles

Usability of a Mobile Application on Anemia Prevention among Adolescents

The availability and usability of a smartphone application in Indonesia for preventing anemia, particularly for adolescents, are understudied due to the large number of health applications available for hematologic diseases. This research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of a mobile application development process to prevent anemia among adolescents and test its usability to the end user. The study analyzed the usability of a hybrid application called "AneMia-Prev" at a junior high school in Serang, Banten, Indonesia. The application was developed through conducting a content review, creating a prototype, and undergoing expert development. The usability was assessed by 15 adolescents using a Think Aloud and Smartphone Usability questionnaire. Meanwhile, data analysis was conducted using Jaspers' iterative 3-cycle model. The AneMia_Prev (TA) application was developed using server-client architecture, MySQL database, Apache Tomcat, and Spring Framework. A usability test was conducted on 15 female end users, with a mean age of 16.8 years and 60.0% of them in grade 8. The application received an overall usability average of 112.5 points, indicating good usability. The study demonstrates the high usability of the prototype, indicating its effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, suggesting that future research could use TA methods with larger sample sizes

Design and Development of Let’s Talk Now: A Speech Assistive Mobile App for Dysarthric Children

Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that damages the articulation of motor speech. Medical researchers have shown that young children suffering from dysarthria have no difficulty with their cognition, however since they are unable to communicate properly and smoothly with their family and friends, they have trouble speaking their thoughts. A multimedia assistive speaking intervention in the form of a mobile application named 'Let's Talk Now' which was designed and developed for the use of dysarthric children aged 3 to 7 years old. This application was meant to be an early intervention to encourage these children to communicate and enable others to understand them. It focuses on general terms of conversation for calling members of the family, simple greetings and gestures, locations, ordering food and drinks, listing events, and asking for support. This paper describes the design and development process of the speech assistive mobile application. It was designed and developed based on the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) Model. This paper also includes details on the evaluation of the prototype: alpha test and beta test. The purpose of designing and developing speech assistive multimedia tool for dysarthric children was to help them to be able to converse and interact with others at the early stage of recovery intervention. It is also an attempt to uphold the obligations of the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education to provide recommendations for the care and support of the children with disabilities.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE APPLICATION ISMIND FOR FORMATIVE STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT

Nowadays, mobile learning utilizing mobile applications has become widely adopted due to its flexibility and the numerous benefits it offers. However, the availability of mobile apps in education especially for assessment is limited and still an emerging topic despite the affirmation of its positive impact on students’ learning outcomes and motivation. The complexity of the mobile application development process, which includes requirement elicitation, modeling, designing, developing, testing, and evaluating, could be a contributing factor to this issue. This study aimed to propose a guideline for designing and developing an educational mobile application through the development of an application named IsMind that focuses on formative assessment. Evolutionary Prototyping, a methodology under the agile approach of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) was deployed to meet the educational application requirement by integrating content, pedagogy, and technology aspects to provide better teaching and learning material. The activities within each phase of evolutionary prototyping including the models, tools, techniques, and deliverables were discussed extensively. The analysis and design phase were done using an object-oriented approach with appropriate models (diagrams) to present the functional requirement of the mobile application. Various CASE tools which accelerated the development process in various stages of software development were explained.UMLet software was employed to create a use case diagram, activity diagram, and sequence diagram. The user interface design, which followed The Eight Golden Rules of Interface, was developed utilizing Marvel software. Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Unity 3D, and Microsoft Visual Studio Code (C#) were utilized in the development process. The mobile application provides a variety of question types, such as Drag And Drop, Multiple Choice, Numbering, True And False, Matching, and Puzzle. The evaluation of IsMind indicated its appropriateness as an interactive teaching and learning media for assessment. The proposed steps for constructing this assessment educational mobile app. The proposed methodology consists of the details of phases, various activities within each phase, techniques, models, and tools for each activity as well as deliverables of each phase offer a helpful guideline for anyone interested in developing a similar application.

AR-Speaking Buddy: Designing Content and User Interface of An Augmented Reality (AR)-Based Application for Malaysian Children Speaking Practice

The application of augmented reality (AR) as a learning tool is crucial for incorporating virtual objects into real-world environments to support learners in their educational journey. Despite the growing interest in AR applications for learning, research in this area is still in its early stages, particularly concerning the development of AR applications tailored for children, taking into account their needs and design preferences. This study aims to gain insights into children's perspectives on interface and content design, specifically for augmented reality application development. By involving children in the design process, the study seeks to identify their interface design preferences for AR characters and explore the topics that interest them the most. To achieve these objectives, the paper outlines the development process of an AR mobile application named "AR-Speaking Buddy," which was designed by considering children's content needs and interface design preferences. The application focuses on providing English language learning support to children for practicing their English communication skills. The research involved 25 children aged between 9 to 12 years old as users, and their feedback on the AR-Speaking Buddy application is presented, highlighting content and interface design elements. The findings from the children's feedback shed light on essential aspects of AR application design, which contribute to the development of future interface and content design strategies for augmented reality applications in education. By understanding children's preferences and incorporating them into AR application development, educators can create more effective and engaging learning experiences for young learners.

Integrating Augmented Reality, Gamification, and Serious Games in Computer Science Education

This study aims to evaluate the impact of using augmented reality, gamification, and serious games in computer science education. The study presents the development process of an educational mobile application, describes an experiment that was conducted and involved 117 higher education students, and analyzes the results of a 49-item paper-based questionnaire. In total, 8 research questions were explored. The results of the study revealed that several educational benefits can be yielded when integrating such applications in teaching and learning activities and actively involving students in the design and development process. In particular, the application was assessed as an effective learning tool that could enrich and improve the educational process and create interactive, inclusive, and student-centered learning environments. Its use led mostly to positive effects and experiences while maintaining the negative ones to a minimum and most students expressed positive emotions. Students were able to learn in a more enjoyable and interesting manner, and their motivation, engagement, self-efficacy, and immersion were greatly increased. Students’ innate need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness was satisfactorily met and both their intrinsic and extrinsic learning motivations were triggered. They felt a sense of belonging and cultivated their social skills. The potential of the application to improve students’ knowledge acquisition and academic achievements was also observed. The application also enabled students to improve their computational thinking and critical thinking skills. Therefore, the potential of combining augmented reality, gamification, and serious games to enhance students’ cognitive and social–emotional development was highlighted.

Development of digital intervention through a mobile phone application as an adjunctive treatment for bipolar disorder: MyBee project

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex and severe mental illness with high mortality and relapse rates. Psychoeducational interventions based on scientific evidence could increase treatment adherence rates through a better comprehension of the illness. The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of a digital intervention using a mobile phone application as adjunctive treatment for BD. The study has been conducted since March 2019 and is divided in three phases: (1) mobile application development process and assessment, (2) pilot trial, and (3) evaluation and controlled trial. During the first phase MyBee app was developed with the following axes: general information about BD and its course, BD comorbidities and available treatments, lifestyle, sleep quality, diet, suicide and stigma, stress management, and relaxation exercises based on mindfulness techniques. The second phase was the 12-week long pilot trial, which used a quasi-experimental design and aimed to evaluate both the content of the digital intervention and the functionality of the MyBee app. Following, the controlled trial was conducted to compare the digital intervention through a mobile phone application as adjunctive treatment for BD, with a control group without intervention over a period of 12 weeks. Online-based strategies through mobile applications have been an important strategy to monitor symptoms, offer self-management, improve treatment adherence, and prevent relapse among BD patients.

Digital platform based on geomarketing as an improvement in micro and small enterprises

After the situation generated by the pandemic caused by COVID-19, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) faced a complex reality, having to cope with business uncertainty. This research proposes a digital platform based on geomarketing as a growth and support strategy for MSEs, with the objective of improving their labor and capital productivity, through the incorporation of the technological factor, which will have a great impact on them, helping them to continue operating and not having to close their businesses. The platform was developed under the agile Scrum methodology because it is adaptable to the constant changes in the mobile application development process, having as indicators labor productivity and capital productivity. Finally, the results revealed that labor productivity increased by 30.86 percent, meaning that, for every hour worked per person, more sales were made. As for capital productivity, it decreased by 1.47 percent, meaning that investment decreased for each value added of each product sold.

Development of smart application for house condition survey

Information based technologies and devices have proven their effectiveness in almost all the aspects of life. In near past it was hard to believe that, building systems and devices can be controlled through phone. However, IT has made it possible and today it is difficulty to think of a normal life without IT. Mobile application is another marvel of IT technology that allows people to carry all essential businesses through various types of mobile applications. Easiness, secure and resourceful are three factors that moves the masses of population to switch overuse of mobile technology. This study has been planned to develop a mobile application to conduct house condition survey. Methodology of study is planned on three core factors i.e. literature review, a data of building defects, and application development process. An inclusive database of low rise building defects (secondary data) was acquired from from earlier research of first author. The acquired secondary data from Chohan, A.H (2007) has surfaced the various types of building defects and their implications in low rise RCC construction/buildings. Data was validated through participation at site and 10 major segments of building defects were identified. Through review of literature research validity was established, application development process was accomplished and various IoT models and similar application were identified. In application development process, study has set the hierarchy of building defects, construed app. development process in domain of building surveying, validate the data, and developed a conceptual plan of smart survey. In addition, defined the development process of mobile application. In section 3, this research has explained the development of mobile application through three major steps i.e. classifying data, setting defects hierarchy and application development. Study has succeeded to surface a prototype framework of smart “Smart Condition Survey” (SCS) which can be practically used for development of real-time mobile application.

Programming Models for Determining Optimal R&D Arrangement in Mobile Application Development Process

Programming Models for Determining Optimal R&D Arrangement in Mobile Application Development Process

Aplicación interactiva para el aprendizaje con evaluaciones en el área de las matemáticas

The following document presents the development process of an interactive mobile application, as a support strategy for the teaching - learning process in the area of mathematics, for students of the Educational Experience (EE), Fundamentals of Mathematics at the Faculty of Statistics and Informatics. Using User Centered Design (UCD), which proposes to put the client at the center of research and design, to obtain an application that achieves a user experience (UX), satisfactory, when interacting with the application, allowing greater speed in the completion of tasks, which is simple to learn and intuitive, this to increase its pleasure and ease of use for the beneficiary, obtaining these results with usability tests to the application. All this because currently many applications are known as support in the area of mathematics, which have usability problems obtaining a bad UX. This work follows a user-centered methodology to create usable applications and a good UX for university students in the area of mathematics.

Mobile Application Design with IoT for Environmental Pollution Awareness

In the present study, we have seen that many people are affected by environmental pollution, so we proposed a mobile application prototype to facilitate awareness of this environmental problem. The methodology that will help us make this application will be the Scrum methodology, since it is adaptable to the constant changes in the mobile application development process. We will also use an Internet of Things and Fire based technology to collect data from the various air pollution sensors. Since users require a visualization of the contamination in real time. The mobile application to which users will automatically register will have easy access for use in monitoring and controlling atmospheric pollution, whose reception data will be through sensors. The result that has been obtained is that it was achieved with the implementation of the application that people are aware of the damage that these pollutants cause to the environment.

Usability in computerized mobile assistance solutions

The awareness of the importance of system usability is in a constant boosting. Considering usability has been more and more recognised as one of the indispensable quality factors in the success of an interactive system. This paper explores in this direction the importance of usability in context-aware user interface design for computerised mobile maintenance solutions. We propose a methodology for incorporating contextualised usability requirements in the development process of mobile applications in industrial maintenance sector. An illustrative case study is presented in a typical industrial environment to validate our proposal. Finally, an experimental evaluation was conducted with end users to evaluate our proposal.

Usability in computerised mobile assistance solutions

The awareness of the importance of system usability is in a constant boosting. Considering usability has been more and more recognised as one of the indispensable quality factors in the success of an interactive system. This paper explores in this direction the importance of usability in context-aware user interface design for computerised mobile maintenance solutions. We propose a methodology for incorporating contextualised usability requirements in the development process of mobile applications in industrial maintenance sector. An illustrative case study is presented in a typical industrial environment to validate our proposal. Finally, an experimental evaluation was conducted with end users to evaluate our proposal.

Development of an intervention tool for precision oral self-care: Personalized and evidence-based practice for patients with periodontal disease.

BackgroundOral self-care plays an important role in maintaining oral health and preventing the occurrence of oral diseases. The association between good oral care and good oral hygiene is well known. However, the adherence to a proper daily oral hygiene regimen generally remains poor, so the prevalence of oral diseases remains high. Periodontal disease is the most common oral disease in the population. To enhance the adherence to good oral hygiene behaviors for patients with periodontal disease, we developed a personalized and evidence-based mobile application as an intervention tool for the purpose of initiating and improving good oral self-care.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to demonstrate the systematic development process and content of the oral self-care mobile application, OSCA.MethodsThe systematic development process of OSCA consists of three phases: behavioral diagnosis, intervention design, and assessment of OSCA. Firstly, behavioral problem of oral self-care was identified by the experts in periodontics care. Secondly, the intervention functions and the mode of delivery were designed based on the capability-opportunity-motivation behavioral model, which is the underpinning model behind the behavior change wheel framework. Thirdly, the developed app was evaluated by the experts through a heuristics evaluation checklist by adopting Morville’s Honeycomb model, and the final version of OSCA was assessed by the patients with periodontal disease using the System Usability Scale (SUS).ResultsThe problems of target behavior were identified and incorporated into the design of intervention functions. For the beta version of the OSCA, experts proposed four main suggestions to improve the usefulness. Experts evaluated the beta and final versions of the app using a heuristics evaluation checklist, providing mean scores of 4.38 and 4.62, respectively. For usability testing, 87 participants completed both the specified tasks and the SUS questionnaire, providing an SUS median score of 77.5 (IQR = 12.5) and an overall mean completion time of 12.22 minutes for the specified tasks. The mean scores of the intervention functions for capability establishment, motivation enhancement, and opportunity creation were 6.13, 5.88, and 6.06, respectively.ConclusionsThe study presents a rigorous design process of developing an evidence-based and personalized mobile application for oral self-care. The results of the expert evaluation confirmed the validated design and the participants were satisfied with the designed app.

Development process of instructional mobile application for special needs children

The purpose of this research is to use the design-based research method developed for students and teachers in teaching concept skills to developmentally disabled students and to examine the proces...

Development process of instructional mobile application for special needs children

The purpose of this research is to use the design-based research method developed for students and teachers in teaching concept skills to developmentally disabled students and to examine the process of developing software based on the infrastructure of operant conditioning theory. In the study, semi-structured interview forms and observation forms were used as data collection tools in order to reveal the opinions of teachers during the material development process as well as the employability after they had used the software. In summary, the important results which were found after the application was developed can be summarised as: (a) software to be developed for individuals with special educative needs must be plain and understandable' (b) objects to be used must consist of the visuals of real objects; (c) objects that the students are familiar with and have in their environments must be used.

Comparative Analysis of Interaction Flow Modeling Language Tools

Modeling approaches based on standards are of paramount importance in the field of front-end design for web and mobile applications. Problems are often encountered during the selection of tools for designing applications for developers and researchers, particularly applications that are related to time and cost in the market and academia. The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is a recently standardized modeling language designed for managing the content expression, user interaction and behavior control of front-end applications. IFML brings several benefits to the development process of web and mobile front-end applications. Thus, several tools have been developed for the exploitation of technical artifacts offered by current specifications. In this study, we discuss the tools proposed for modeling IFML to provide a comparative analysis while considering various criteria. The result can be used as a basis of tool selection for specific aspects.

A descriptive system for the Infant health-related Quality of life Instrument (IQI): Measuring health with a mobile app.

BackgroundThe assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is important for health outcomes research, disease modeling studies and comparisons of different healthcare interventions. Yet, only a few tools are available to assess HRQoL in 0-1-year-old infants. Furthermore, there is a need for an instrument able to assess HRQoL with a single, standardized, overall score in the first year of life. Here we described the development of the Infant health-related Quality of life Instrument (IQI), a generic, preference-based instrument that can be administered through a mobile application for assessing HRQoL in 0-1-year-old infants.MethodsA multi-step development process began by extracting candidate health concepts from relevant measures identified by two literature searches. Next, three panels, with experts from Asia, Europe, New Zealand and United States of America, and two surveys, with primary caregivers in New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, evaluated the relevance of the candidate health concepts, organized them into attributes based on their similarities, explored alternative attributes and generated response scales. Additional interviews assessed the cross-cultural interpretability, parents’ understanding of health attributes, and the usability of the mobile application.ResultsThe final list of 7 health attributes included in the IQI consisted of sleeping, feeding, breathing, stooling/poo, mood, skin, and interaction. The users’ experiences with the mobile application were generally positive.ConclusionsThe IQI is the first generic, preference-based, instrument designed to assess overall HRQoL in 0-1-year old infants. It is short and easy-to-administer through a mobile application. Moreover, close attention was paid to the opinions of the infants’ primary caregivers during the instrument and mobile application development process.

The Role of Participatory Design in Mobile Application Development

Mobile devices are used by people worldwide. It becomes a common equipment to complete a day-to-day activity. Inside the devices, there are numerous mobile applications that have been built for various needs. Some of these are quite successful while the other are not. The development of successful mobile application faces several challenges. In this research, we want to explore the use of participatory design method in mobile application development. Particularly, the aim of the study is to answer the question whether participatory design method has a place in the realm of mobile application development. We established two sessions of workshop to accommodate the participant to take part in the development process of mobile application. The result shows that participatory design method can determine how the user will deal with the limitations of mobile devices. It helps user to create a particular form of interaction that meets mobile devices characteristics.

Development of mHealth applications for pre-eclampsia triage.

The development of mobile applications for the diagnosis and management of pregnant women with pre-eclampsia is described. These applications are designed for use by community-based health care providers (c-HCPs) in health facilities and during home visits to collect symptoms and perform clinical measurements (including pulse oximeter readings). The clinical data collected in women with pre-eclampsia are used as the inputs to a predictive model providing a risk score for the development of adverse outcomes. Based on this risk, the applications provide recommendations on treatment, referral, and reassessment. c-HCPs can access patient records across multiple visits, using multiple devices that are synchronized using a secure Research Electronic Data Capture server. A unique feature of these applications is the ability to measure oxygen saturation with a pulse oximeter connected to a smartphone (Phone Oximeter). The mobile health application development process, including challenges encountered and solutions are described.