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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Mobile Apps"”.
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Interaction mining mobile apps
Millions of mobile apps are used by billions of users every day. Although the design of these apps play an important role in their adoption, the design process still remains complex and time intensive. At the same time, existing apps embody multiple solutions to numerous design problems faced by …
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Platform-level protection for interacting mobile apps
In a modern mobile platform, apps are mutually distrustful, but they share the same device and frequently interact with each other. This dissertation shows how existing platforms, like Android and iOS, often fail to support important data protection scenarios, and describes two systems to improve …
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Improvements of and Extensions to FSMWeb: Testing Mobile Apps
<p>A mobile application is a software program that runs on mobile device. In 2017, 178.1 billion mobile apps downloaded and the number is expected to grow to 258.2 billion app downloads in 2022 [19]. The number of app downloads poses a challenge for mobile application testers to find the right …
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Utility of agricultural mobile apps among Indian rural farmers
… technologies, including smartphone applications (apps) which can provide farmers with accurate and timely information. The usage of mobile phones and their applications (apps) is still in development and early stages of adoption in India especially among the rural farming community, and there is a …
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Empirical Studies of Mobile Apps and Their Dependence on Mobile Platforms
Our increasing reliance on mobile devices has given rise to a new class of software applications (i.e., mobile apps). Tens of thousands of developers have developed hundreds of thousands of mobile apps that are available across multiple platforms. These apps are used by millions of people around …
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Consumer-Centric Innovation for Mobile Apps Empowered by Social Media Analytics
Due to the rapid development of Internet communication technologies (ICTs), an increasing number of social media platforms exist where consumers can exchange comments online about products and services that businesses offer. The existing literature has demonstrated that online user-generated …
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A hybrid approach for reverse engineering gui model from mobile apps for automated testing
… transformation in personal computing where mobile devices are rapidly replacing traditional computers for an increasing number of users. This has impacted the area of software development through the growing sector of mobile applications for mobile devices. Like the traditional software …
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A test case generation approach for mobile APPS based on context and GUI events
The increase of mobile devices with rich innovative feature has become an enabler for developing mobile applications (mobile apps) that offer users an advance and extremely-localized context-aware content. Nowadays mobile apps are developed to address more critical areas of people’s daily computing …
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A study of security issues of mobile apps in the android platform using machine learning approaches
<p>Mobile app poses both traditional and new potential threats to system security and user privacy. There are malicious apps that may do harm to the system, and there are mis-behaviors of apps, which are reasonable and legal when not abused, yet may lead to real threats otherwise. Moreover, due to …
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Social media & sports: an evaluation of the influence of Twitter and mobile apps on brand-related consequences
… (Fisher & Wakefield, 1998). Social media and mobile apps are changing the way marketers approach their branding strategies (Simmons, 2007). Professional sport brands are developing online branding strategies to convert casual fans to highly identified fans (Ioakamidis, 2010). Online social …
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Engaging reality: examining how mixed reality mobile apps and games facilitate sense of place development for a more engaged citizenry
… a reverse impact. Location aware mixed reality mobile apps and games may be one such technology that, with purposeful design, have such potential. It is possible that this technology could be purposefully designed to facilitate sense of place development among users, which can lead to outcomes …
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Co-Creating a Socio-Technical Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Crime-Reporting Mobile Apps in Urban Residential Communities
<p>Although mobile applications (apps) for crime reporting can enhance safety and foster social cohesion in urban communities, adoption of existing crime-reporting apps remains low because they overemphasize technological features at the expense of social realities. To address this problem, the …
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Developing a framework to evaluate the types and dose of tailored health information in mobile apps for chronic condition self-management
… involves multiple, complex behaviors. A mobile health (mHealth) approach where older adults self-manage conditions with apps presents a cost-effective solution. However, older adults often lack experience with apps, facing challenges include usability, stress, and privacy. Tailoring may …
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The Development and Deployment of Mobile Apps and Server Platform for Real-World Screening of Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Disease in Low-Resource Areas
… smartphone with access to a remote server. This mobile health platform, known as "PyMed," consists of a Django server, Postgres data base, and a variety of Bayesian network machine learning and data processing algorithms implemented in Python. While several different server platforms have been …
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Aspect of Code Cloning Towards Software Bug and Imminent Maintenance: A Perspective on Open-source and Industrial Mobile Applications
As a part of the digital era of microtechnology, mobile application (app) development is evolving with lightning speed to enrich our lives and bring new challenges and risks. In particular, software bugs and failures cost trillions of dollars every year, including fatalities such as a software bug …
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Investigating the effect of gamification on the adoption of fitness apps on mobile devices in South Africa
Despite the large number of downloads of mobile apps and the growth of the fitness mobile app industry, research shows that fitness mobile apps are faced with the issue of having a low adoption rate. This thesis focusses on fitness mobile apps and attempts to understand this issue of adoption or …
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Improving the performance and reliability of mobile applications
The mobile application ("app") ecosystem has grown at a tremendous pace with millions of apps and hundreds of thousands of app developers. Mobile apps run across a wide range of network, hardware, location, and usage conditions that are hard for developers to emulate or even anticipate during lab …
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Automatically extracting interaction and app data from mobile application traces
… research, we used an existing system to collect mobile interaction traces and extract meaningful information in terms of interaction data, apps, and layout information and complexity of mobile apps. The preeminent driving force for this research was to come up with a system that is scalable and …
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PrivacyInformer : an automated privacy description generator for the MIT App Inventor
With the advent of "smart" mobile phones and ubiquitous mobile applications, the pace at which people generate, access, and acquire data has accelerated significantly. In this thesis, we first examine how privacy issues in the mobile apps market compromise the well-being of both app consumers and …
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Mining Security Risks from Massive Datasets
… environment, prioritizing security risks of mobile apps and measuring the impact of security risks between websites and mobile apps. First, the thesis presents a framework to detect data leakage in very large content. The framework can be deployed on cloud for enterprise and preserve the …
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