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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Smartphone Apps"”.
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Assessing intrusiveness of smartphone apps
… the challenge of improving transparency for smartphone apps by focusing on the intrusiveness component of assessing privacy risk. Specifically, we develop a framework for qualitatively assessing and quantitatively measuring the intrusiveness of apps based on their data access behavior. This …
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New challenges for smartphone apps among Chinese urban older persons during the COVID-19 pandemic
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Inside the App Bureaucracy: The Use of Smartphone Apps in Public Service Delivery Organizations in Pakistan
Smartphone apps are being used in governments in developing countries for monitoring of frontline officials in delivery of public services. Development literature has expressed doubt about transformative impact of digital technologies on entrenched bureaucracies in developing countries. While …
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Patient adherence to smartphone weight loss applications: A dietitian perception study
… is an effective tool for weight management. As smartphones gain popularity, many individuals are using smartphone apps for diet tracking to lose weight.</p> <p>Objective: To determine the dietitians’ perception on whether their involvement with the use of smartphone weight loss apps results in …
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Moderating effects of cross-cultural dimensions on the relationship between persuasive smartphone application's design and acceptance-loyalty
… medium of communication has been centered within Smartphone via applications (apps). This is due to the vast proliferation of the Smartphone and the personal attachment of users to this device in various cultures. This led designers to search for ultimate ways to target users in specific regions …
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Characteristics and quality of physical activity apps which provide feedback on user affect. A systematic review and evaluation of public and academic apps
… solutions for behaviour change must be sought. Smartphone apps are extremely popular and prevalent across the population, however their quality is still questionable. Physical activity produces an acute ‘feel good’ effect and intervention designers should consider the role that affect (mood) …
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Using Mobile Health Apps in Underserved Patients with Diabetes
… to help such patients. The rapid adoption of smartphones within the last decade has allowed an opportunity for patients to use mHealth and smartphone applications (apps) as a low-cost way to get health information and services. mHealth has the potential to address such disparities in access to …
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Technology use in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders
… reported were email (62%), text messaging (36%), smartphone apps (34%), CD-ROM /DVD (18%), internet-based programs (16%), and virtual reality (7%). Additionally, both email and text messaging were reported as the most convenient technologies used in ED treatment programs. Focus groups (n=9) …
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Randomized Controlled Trial of Pacifica, a CBT and Mindfulness-based App for Stress, Depression, and Anxiety Management with Health Monitoring
mHealth smartphone apps have inundated the market. The promise of mHealth apps is that they increase access to psychotherapeutic content while also expanding options beyond face-to-face care. However, information on the quality and efficacy of commercial mHealth apps is sparse. Pacifica, a …
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Reinforcing the weakest link in cyber security: securing systems and software against attacks targeting unwary users
… or experience the fastest user growth (e.g. smartphone apps), despite the platform distinctions. I have addressed the two dominant attacks through which most malicious software (a.k.a. malware) infections happen on the web: drive-by download and rogue websites. BLADE, an OS kernel extension, …
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Evaluation and recommendation of mobile technology for early course psychosis care
… to increase access to and quality of care. Smartphones and mobile technology are potential tools to support coordinated specialty care (CSC) for early psychosis, given their potential to augment the six core roles of care: case management and team leadership, recovery-oriented psychotherapy, …
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The application of commercial wearable technology and smartphone rehabilitation applications for enhancing individuals’ level of activity after hip replacement surgery
… available activity monitoring wearables and smartphone apps have the potential to engage patients as advocates in their personalised care, but the systematic review conducted in this integrated thesis identified that the evidence of their use in THR population is limited. Furthermore, …
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Data and Information as Our New Transport Infrastructure: An Exploration into How the Modern Transport System Is Being Shaped by Information Communication Technology
… paper compares origin-destination data from a smartphone journey planner to the origin-destination data from Regional Household Travel Surveys (RHTS) for New York City and Philadelphia. The smartphone data has large, continuous sample sizes but lacks demographic information or sample controls …
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Audio computing in the wild: frameworks for big data and small computers
… instant music analysis engine running on smartphone apps. In all those applications, efficient machine learning algorithms are supposed to achieve not only a good performance, but also a great resource-efficiency. We start from some efficient dictionary-based single-channel source …
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Recursos educacionais abertos para smartphone: desenho de uma framework para aprendizagem móvel
… de recursos educacionais abertos para smartphone, pode contribuir para a mudança do paradigma de ensino tradicional para um mais aberto e centrado no aluno, criando um caminho para a integração de tecnologias móveis no ensino. A investigação foi norteada pela metodologia Desenho de …