Mobile IT Research Articles

Harnessing the Power of Complementarity Between Smart Tracking Technology and Associated Health Information Technologies: Longitudinal Study.

Smart tracking technology (STT) that was applied for clinical use has the potential to reduce 30-day all-cause readmission risk through streamlining clinical workflows with improved accuracy, mobility, and efficiency. However, previously published literature has inadequately addressed the joint effects of STT for clinical use and its complementary health ITs (HITs) in this context. Furthermore, while previous studies have discussed the symbiotic and pooled complementarity effects among different HITs, there is a lack of evidence-based research specifically examining the complementarity effects between STT for clinical use and other relevant HITs. Through a complementarity theory lens, this study aims to examine the joint effects of STT for clinical use and 3 relevant HITs on 30-day all-cause readmission risk. These HITs are STT for supply chain management, mobile IT, and health information exchange (HIE). Specifically, this study examines whether the pooled complementarity effect exists between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management, and whether symbiotic complementarity effects exist between STT for clinical use and mobile IT and between STT for clinical use and HIE. This study uses a longitudinal in-patient dataset, including 879,122 in-patient hospital admissions for 347,949 patients in 61 hospitals located in Florida and New York in the United States, from 2014 to 2015. Logistic regression was applied to assess the effect of HITs on readmission risks. Time and hospital fixed effects were controlled in the regression model. Robust standard errors (SEs) were used to account for potential heteroskedasticity. These errors were further clustered at the patient level to consider possible correlations within the patient groups. The interaction between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management, mobile IT, and HIE was negatively associated with 30-day readmission risk, with coefficients of -0.0352 (P=.003), -0.0520 (P<.001), and -0.0216 (P=.04), respectively. These results indicate that the pooled complementarity effect exists between STT for clinical use and STT for supply chain management, and symbiotic complementarity effects exist between STT for clinical use and mobile IT and between STT for clinical use and HIE. Furthermore, the joint effects of these HITs varied depending on the hospital affiliation and patients' disease types. Our results reveal that while individual HIT implementations have varying impacts on 30-day readmission risk, their joint effects are often associated with a reduction in 30-day readmission risk. This study substantially contributes to HIT value literature by quantifying the complementarity effects among 4 different types of HITs: STT for clinical use, STT for supply chain management, mobile IT, and HIE. It further offers practical implications for hospitals to maximize the benefits of their complementary HITs in reducing the 30-day readmission risk in their respective care scenarios.

Foreign experience of software testing engineers training: analysis of educational standards and programs of American universities

The article aims to explore the U.S. educational system's approach to training software testing specialists, highlighting specific features and methodologies. The study involves analyzing key standards for IT engineer training in the USA, such as the ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curricula, ABET Accreditation Criteria, ISTE Standards for Educators, and CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards, their overall context and targeting, as well as the inclusion of both fundamental and IT-specific disciplines into their content. In the study of each standard, particular emphasis was placed on defining the place and teaching methods of theory and practice of software testing in the university curriculum guidelines. As it was revealed in the analysis, despite the extremely similar interpretation of basic concepts and practices in the context of software testing, opinions about the methodology of their teaching and the need to study as a separate discipline, differ in a set of reviewed standards. Additionally, the research examines training programs at leading American universities, including MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon University, to identify how software testing and quality assurance are reflected in their curricula, covering full-time training programs for students in computer science, software engineering and similar related fields. The analysis examined programs in both general and basic disciplines in the context of information technology, and specific to a certain technological or organizational area, such as mobile device development or IT project management. The content of the subjects, the list of modules and lectures, as well as tasks for extracurricular work, available in open sources, was also analyzed and searched for topics related to quality assurance or software testing. As revealed in the study, in most technical universities testing is not covered within a separate discipline, but is taught as a part of ones related to development practices. However, some training programs, in particular the Master's level, still have disciplines, devoted exclusively to quality control, testing management and automation

Effective and efficient core computation in signed networks

With the proliferation of mobile technology and IT development, people can use social network services anywhere and anytime. Among many social network mining problems, identifying cohesive subgraphs has attracted extensive attention from different fields due to its numerous applications. The most widely used among many cohesive subgraph models is k-core, because of its simple and intuitive structure. In this paper, we formulate (p,n)-core in signed networks by extending the k-core model. (p,n)-core is designed to guarantee sufficient internal positive edges and deficient internal negative edges. We formally prove that finding an exact (p,n)-core is NP-hard. Hence, we propose three efficient and effective algorithms to find a solution. We demonstrate the superiority of our proposed algorithms using real-world and synthetic networks.

Использование мобильных IT-приложений для решения задач водопользования на внутрихозяйственной оросительной сети

Purpose: to demonstrate the possibilities and relevance of using the special tools of IT support, focused on their use as part of mobile computer tools and gadgets, for solving the problems of water use planning on an on-farm irrigation network. Materials and methods. The methodology for solving the goal included: determining the water supply regimes for each irrigated field according to the planned irrigation regimes for agricultural crops, coordinating water supply schedules for irrigated fields with the technical and operational functionalities of the irrigated area, calculating the indicators of the water use plan in accordance with the specified requirements. As an object for which the calculations were performed, the project of one of the irrigated plots of Ipatovsky district of the Stavropol Territory was used. The basis of the used IT support tools was the authors’ development, implemented on the basis of widely available and popular software apps. Results. Algorithmic and software support for computer applications that ensure operation as part of mobile IT tools has been developed. An example of the calculation of an on-farm water use plan for the initial irrigated area using the developed mobile IT applications is given, demonstrating the efficiency of their application. Conclusions. The conducted studies have confirmed the relevance of the use of computer applications oriented for using as part of widely available and relatively inexpensive mobile IT tools. It is noted that due to the uniqueness of most reclamation facilities, these applications should provide for relatively simple and prompt adaptation to these facilities, as well as information compatibility with other IT support tools used in the production process.

Sustainability of mobile IT sector in industrially developing countries by supporting repairability

This article aims to provide a design intervention to support the repairability of mobile phones and, in turn, promote sustainability. Typically, mobile phones are designed with a view towards obsolescence for users in industrially developed countries, as the expected repair in these circumstances is minimal. In contrast, in developing countries, such as India, these phones are constantly repaired and are owned several times by different people before their final demise. Therefore, to support repairability, a field study based in Mumbai, India, was conducted to understand the cognitive basis of repair. The results were further analyzed using a cognitive work analysis framework that provides insight into the possibilities for informational requirements for design. The findings indicate that small-scale repair shops (3–4 repairmen) and the hole-in-the-wall shops (1 repairman) can benefit from the intervention in terms of informational support for the repair activity. If the cognitive dimension of repair is supported for these low-cost repair shops, we can expect an increase in the capability and efficacy of the repairmen, resulting in fewer phones ending up as e-waste. Thus, due to its low cost, informational diagrams that support the repair activity can be incorporated by the manufacturer without any radical changes in existing proprietary technology, resulting in the possibility for the long-term growth of the repair ecology in a country such as India.

Recrystallization Behavior of CP Ti Welds by Rolling

Electrolytic copper foil is a thin copper film material manufactured by electroplating and is mainly used as a circuit material to transmit electrical signals in printed circuit boards of electronic products such as TVs, PCs, and smartphones. Recently, it has been widely used as a negative current collector for lithium-ion batteries, which is essential for mobile IT and electric vehicles. The electrodeposited drum material is composed of CP Ti, which exhibits corrosion resistance and has a light weight, and welding is essential for processing in the form of a drum. Therefore, when the microstructures of the base metal and the welded part differ, these differences are reflected in the surface of the copper foil, which results in poor quality. Therefore, in this study, a welding process that required a low heat input while minimizing the size of the weld was used, and the change in the grain size was studied through plastic deformation and recrystallization heat treatment of the weld structure. Following the recrystallization heat treatment after the rolling of the plasma welded specimen, it was found that the calculation results of the recrystallization heat treatment were consistent with the actual conditions of the heat treatment, and the microstructure of the weld metal became finer as the rolling reduction rate increased.

Secure encryption key management as a SecaaS based on Chinese wall security policy

Cloud computing has become very popular and many mobile IT users are accessing business data and services without going through corporate networks. In this context the common security mechanism of most services and interactions is based on the encryption/signing keys, which themselves depend highly on the cryptographic key management system (CKMS) itself. Outsourcing CKMS to the cloud Computing as a trusted security as a service (CKMS_SecaaS) remains a real challenge, which we deal to the establishing of the trust between customers and service providers problems. To deal with this challenge we have proposed an approach that provides a CKMS_SecaaS based on the trusted platform module (TPM), which is the foundation for the trust, keys generation, and SecaaS authentication.In this paper, we propose an approach for keys security based on Chinese Wall Security Policy (CWSP) as a dynamic firewall mechanism, which it is for access and information flow control. We note that, the TPM with CKMS_SecaaS are considered a real shared environment, they host and manage a lot of objects (keys and related data), objects belong to different users groups, and they are considered sensitive data (encryption keys). Therefore, the CWSP is a very interesting candidates to our context, which it provides the creation of walls between companies’ objects based on an access control rules.

Side window buffeting: a smartphone investigation on a car trip

Movement of air over a hole or cavity typically generates sound, which can have both noisy and tonal components (cavity noise, cavity tones). Such acoustic phenomena often tend to be a nuisance, e.g. for ‘buffeting’ or ‘wind throbbing’ noise, where airflow over an open side window or sunroof in a moving vehicle can produce low-frequency, high-amplitude ‘booming’ sound signals. The present contribution provides a first description of this curious phenomenon of everyday physics at an intermediate difficulty level, comparing a simplified theoretical model based on a Helmholtz resonator with experimental data obtained by everyday mobile IT devices—namely smartphones or tablet PC. Readers thus are able to reproduce and study the buffeting frequency of a car interior, based on relatively inexpensive equipment using their own mobile devices for data acquisition and analysis.

Managing the Far-Edge: Are Today's Centralized Solutions a Good Fit?

Edge computing has established itself as the foundation for next-generation mobile networks, IT infrastructure, and industrial systems thanks to promised low network latency, computation offloading, and data locality. These properties empower key use-cases like Industry 4.0, Vehicular Communication and Internet of Things. Nowadays implementation of Edge computing is based on extensions to available Cloud computing software tools. While this approach accelerates adoption, it hinders the deployment of the aforementioned use-cases that requires an infrastructure largely more decentralized than Cloud data centers, notably in the far-Edge of the network. In this context, this work aims at: (i) to analyze the differences between Cloud and Edge infrastructures, (ii) to analyze the architecture adopted by the most prominent open-source Edge computing solutions, and (iii) to experimentally evaluate those solutions in terms of scalability and service instantiation time in a medium-size far Edge system. Results show that mainstream Edge solutions require powerful centralized controllers and always-on connectivity, making them unsuitable for highly decentralized scenarios in the far-Edge where stable and high-bandwidth links are not ubiquitous.

Encryption key management as a trusted security as a service for cloud computing

Cloud computing has become very popular and its users and services are in constant increase. Currently, many mobile IT users are accessing business data and services without going through corporate...

DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE MARKETING IT PROJECTS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE

This article describes the main problematic issues and modern approaches to managing and developing mobile marketing IT projects. In this study, the authors set the goal of the study – to analyze the features of IT project management in mobile marketing, to systematize the development models of modern web projects and to study the possibilities of using flexible applied methodologies that formalize the development and modification of web applications based on the use of effective methods for managing IT projects in mobile marketing. To achieve this research goal, the authors used theoretical and conceptual analysis, studied existent empirical databases for the mobile application market in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The authors highlighted the critical problems of using agile methodologies in IT projects of mobile marketing. A comparative analysis of the feature’s applicability of IT project management methodologies and problems of their using in mobile marketing applications are presented. The logical and structural diagram of the stages of the Mobile App Design Timeline is proposed, which contributes to increasing the effectiveness of the implementation of information technology projects in general. To assess the applicability of the flexible methodologies of Kanban and Scrum, an IT project of mobile marketing was simulated. The significance of the results obtained is predetermined by the fact that they could form a theoretical base for improving the effectiveness of marketing activity under conditions of the informatization of society through the building a selforganizing team and use of agile methodologies in mobile marketing IT projects.

Integration of Mobile Learning in Education: Perceptions of Prospective Teachers

M-Learning is the use of mobile and handheld IT devices for learning. It became a cheaper source of information and communication, which is now in the access of anyone, anytime and anywhere using mobile devices. This qualitative research was conducted on 21 prospective teachers from the University of Education selected through stratified and random sampling techniques to explore the awareness and perception regarding M-Learning. The semi-structured interview protocol was used to collect the data. It was got validated by experts. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The study concluded that prospective teachers used mobile devices for communication, academics, recreation and social networking. M-Learning created ease in learning and improved it. It made learning flexible, gave better understanding and saved time. Lack of facilities, unethical use and traditional classroom environment were the hurdles in its implementation. Facilities needed to be provided; parents and teachers should protect the youngsters from unethical use.

Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Marketing: Conditions, Obstacles and Prospects of Using

The article considers the main problematic issues of application of artificial intelligence technologies in the practice of mobile marketing in Ukraine. The tendencies of development of the Internet environment in the world, growth of volumes of the accumulated information, trends of mobile traffic and their influence on digital transformations of marketing are analyzed. The advantages of mobile marketing as an effective channel of operative personalized interaction with consumers and a source of receiving statistical information on the results of marketing activities are revealed. Factors, preconditions and obstacles of practical application of modern digital analytics tools in mobile marketing are considered. 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The Influence of Mobile Information Technologies in Enhancing the Electronic Audit

The use of mobile information technology (Mobile IT) has become a necessary requirement in our time because of the overlap of these technologies in all social, economic and political life facilities. This paper aims to clarify the impact of Mobile IT on the business environment through the discussion and analysis of the most important challenges facing the electronic audit (e-Audit) when adopting these techniques and what are the most important solutions for it. The researcher used the descriptive approach by distributing 253 questionnaires on sample of academic and professional auditors in Mosul - Iraq, and analyzing the collected data by statistical tools using SPSS. The researcher concluded that most of the responds agreed that the applying of Mobile IT can influence positively on the e-audit practices, and he recommended to enhance the ICT infrastructure, reduce the digital divide, enact laws to protect electronic data, and organize educational seminars on the importance of using Mobile IT, and its positive impact on business transactions and the environment.

Accommodating Practices During Episodes of Disillusionment with Mobile IT

This study investigates how tablet users react when technology falls short of their expectations. We deploy a data/frame model to study this process and investigate resistance-related reactions and the deployment of accommodating practices at the individual level. Analyzing user blogs that provide narratives on user interaction with tablets, we identify triggers of episodes of disillusionment and illustrate five sensemaking paths that users follow, eventually leading to one of three practices: 1) users choose to defer tasks until the situation changes, or they abandon the platform altogether; 2) they develop workarounds at different levels of proficiency; or 3) they proceed by reframing their expectations of the platform. By revealing user decision-making process during episodes of disillusionment, the findings contribute to information systems post-adoption research. At a practical level, the findings inform IT artifact and application design by offering insights on how users process discrepancies between their expectations and actual use experience.

Rationalizing personal health management (PHM) policy: Identifying health IT use patterns via observations of daily living (ODLs) data

ObjectivesManaging personal health information is mainly dependent upon individual users’ adoption and use of new health technology. Despite the increasing popularity of mobile health apps, recent endeavors of self-health management have been somewhat limited to fitness management whose apps have selective features and capabilities. Under this context, it raises a question as to whether health consumers are capable of adopting and utilizing mobile health apps with varying features and capabilities in order to manage both medical and fitness health information. MethodsBorrowing from a theoretical lens of observations of daily living (ODLs), the authors posit that if individual health consumers can record their daily activities with both health and non-health related mobile IT, such self-tracking information can then serve as an evaluation tool for measuring their future capabilities of new health IT adoption. To explore the phenomenon, we administered an online survey to collect technology-related ODL data from 226 international health consumers with known ODL survey items. ResultsBy applying confirmatory factor analysis and K-means cluster analysis, we found health consumers’ use of social and finance-related technology are closely linked to the use of mobile health technology in their daily living. Moreover, health consumers who actively use all three technologies (i.e., social, financial and health technologies) tend to have affinitive perceptions toward health management outcomes. ConclusionThe findings of this study can inform health policymakers to vie for more effective mobile health technology in rationalizing personal health management (PHM) policy.

Scott Kupor explains the new realities of accessing venture capital

Purpose Interview with Scott Kupor, a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz (AH Capital Management LLC), a private American venture capital firm founded in 2009. Its investments span the mobile, gaming, social, e-commerce, education and enterprise IT – including cloud computing, security, and software-as-a-service industries. Design/methodology/approach Kupor’s book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Portfolio, 2019) can be used as a handbook for strategizing about venture capital deals, how to partner with multiple venture capitalists and how to assess new business ideas and market opportunities. Findings Kupor was interviewed to obtain a venture capitalist’s perspective on the strategic guidelines for starting up an innovative business. Practical implications One of the key issues that VC investors seek to understand is, Why is this particular team best positioned to win the market versus any of the others that might approach the same opportunity? The team in many ways can become more important than the original business idea, particularly since we know the market and product will evolve over time. Originality/value Kupor warns that competition is growing more intense. The cost of starting a business is much lower than in the past. However, given the widespread availability of talent, it is unlikely that most startups will have the field to themselves.

Development of a Model for the Implementation of Mobile IT Solutions in Maintenance Processes

Von den im Rahmen individueller Digitalisierungsprojekte entwickelten IT-Losungen entfallen etwa 40 % auf Assistenzsysteme, die den Nutzern insbesondere bei der Entscheidungsfindung und der Durchfuhrung von Tatigkeiten unterstutzen sollen. Ein geeigneter Anwendungsfall fur die Verwendung von Assistenzsystemen stellen Instandhaltungsprozesse dar. Der Einsatz intelligenter Assistenzsysteme in Form mobiler IT-Losungen, beispielsweise ein Tablet, weist diesbezuglich erhebliches Effizienzsteigerungspotenzial auf. Ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor fur die Realisierung dieses Effizienzsteigerungspotenzials liegt in der nachhaltigen Integration der IT-Losungen in den Regelbetrieb. Dabei ist die Technologieakzeptanz auf Seiten der Nutzer entscheidend. Ein fur die mobile Instandhaltungsforschung anwendbares, spezifisches Technologieakzeptanzmodell fehlt bislang allerdings. Zur Identifikation der Akzeptanzfaktoren wurde deshalb eine Fallstudie am Flughafen Munchen durchgefuhrt. Innerhalb von leitfadenbasierten Interviews wurden 15 Instandhaltungstechniker nach deren Anforderungen befragt. Ubergeordnetes Ziel dieses Beitrags ist, auf Basis der empirisch erhobenen Akzeptanzfaktoren ein generalisierbares Vorgehensmodell zu entwickeln, welches die Technologieakzeptanz in besonderer Weise bei der Einfuhrung von mobilen IT-Losungen in der Instandhaltung berucksichtigt.

Introduction of Mobile IT Solutions in the Management of Energy Enterprises (on the Example of Company “Kuban-Energy”)

Use of mobile devices for performance of corporate tasks becomes more and more widespread way of increase in overall performance of the energy enterprise. Need to accelerate considerably and to effectively organize work of all organization is the main objective of use of technologies of corporate mobility. For this purpose, it is necessary to choose information network (mobile network operator), mobile devices, and means of authentication of the user (for safety of data).The analysis of opportunities of use of mobile technologies and technical means in production and administrative activity of the energy enterprises was a research objective. The analysis of cover zones and tariff plans of various operators of cellular networks was made for definition of opportunities of implementation of technologies of corporate mobility on the example of the territory of Krasnodar region. The most suitable suppliers of cellular communication in the region were also defined. The analysis of the technical means necessary for realization of mobile solutions and the analysis of means of authentication of users, which allow providing data protection from strangers was executed within the research.It is shown that use of mobile technologies in management of the companies will expand functionality of business processes at the energy enterprise, will promote increase in overall performance, growth of competitiveness.

Security Issues with Mobile IT: A Narrative Review of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

The use of employee-owned mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc., to access business enterprise content or networks otherwise referred to as of ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) has further made the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizations’ data become insecure, and prone to breaches and fraudulent activities. In this study, the authors explored a narrative review that focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of vast works of literature that revealed significant information on the conceptual framework, existing systems that adopt BYOD security, analysis, and synthesis of prior research. Using some keywords “BYOD system security”, “BYOD security threats”, “cyber-attacks and security”, etc., an electronic database search extracted peer-reviewed articles from the last five years. The thematic analysis of fifty-one articles retrieved revealed that breaches and fraudulent activities exist with the use of BYOD that may be perpetrated against organization’s data, intentionally or maliciously. Good policies and guidelines on the use of BYOD coupled with good formulation and communication of same, should be adhered to avert some forms of security breaches. There is the need to preserve user’s privacy, organizations’ data confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and secure same in the devices of employees using their own devices to process corporate and personal data, by using acceptable and effective BYOD Policy and Mobile Device Management Solution (MDMS). This may increase mutual trust and BYOD adoption rate, new innovations and influence that can positively impact the organizations and their employees. Keyword: BYOD, security threats, password, cyber-attacks and security, Information security. DOI : 10.7176/JIEA/8-1-07