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Showing 1 to 20 of 462 for “"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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Security threats to Android apps
… private information. The fluidity of mobile apps and mobile app markets has complicated mobile app security. Many new threats emerged are either because of the deficiency of mobile app development or the design ambiguities of the Android operating system. In order to seek a better …
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Content complexity of nutrition apps
… of U.S. mobile phone users downloading health apps and 62% of dietitians recommending diet/physical activity tracking apps. App behavior change techniques include goal setting, self-monitoring, and feedback; however, dietitian involvement in app content development remains uncertain. This …
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Super Apps: Opportunities and Challenges
Super apps are accelerating digital adoption in developing markets with marketplaces that offer a wide range of products and services and mobile payments (QR codes). They bundle many single apps' functionalities and bring them together in one app that works as the umbrella for many services. This …
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Assessing intrusiveness of smartphone apps
… 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 framework …
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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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Children’s perceptions of mindfulness apps for enhanced learning
Mindfulness, a practice that focuses on controlling breathing and the flight or fight response, has been used in schools to support students. This study explored student and teacher perceptions of a mindfulness app, Smiling Mind, used in a grade four ESL classroom over 16 weeks to develop emotional …
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Implementing iPad apps for elementary language arts students
<p>"This study was to examine the effectiveness of the implementation of iPads with elementary schools students for learning and teaching of language Arts. This study contains a survey which was emailed to teachers of grades K-6 in Washington State. The survey included teachers' perceptions about …
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Desarrollo de la Cognición Matemática Temprana usando APPs
… sentido, el presente estudio pretendía crear APPs centradas en el entrenamiento de las bases cognitivas asociadas al aprendizaje matemático, y que resulten didácticas y agradables para el alumnado de educación infantil, propiciando, a su vez, una transferencia real de la investigación …
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Aqueduct: Task-based entry points in Android apps
… link between voice assistants and third-party apps, we built Aqueduct, a data driven task-based app search and task entry point discovery system for Android. We search over app UI data augmented with semantic annotations to find applications and screens within those applications that can …
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Improvements of and Extensions to FSMWeb: Testing Mobile Apps
… 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 approach to test apps. This dissertation extends the …
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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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Characteristics and quality of physical activity apps which provide feedback on user affect. A systematic review and evaluation of public and academic apps
… 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) plays in …
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A development and assurance process for Medical Application Platform apps
Medical devices have traditionally been designed, built, and certified for use as monolithic units. A new vision of "Medical Application Platforms" (MAPs) is emerging that would enable compositional medical systems to be instantiated at the point of care from a collection of trusted components. …
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Masculinities and Femininities: Romance and Authenticity on American Dating Apps
The phenomenon of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr display the way image-based technologies allow for a new visual literacy. This study investigates how the experience of using dating applications (apps) related to Giddens’s notion of romance and explored the way visual literacy was …
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Helping the helpers : a toolkit for mobile humanitarian assistance apps
… workers be empowered to create useful mobile apps to support the work of first responder teams? Mobile devices are reshaping the disaster management domain and they make fast and targeted support possible. However there is the major obstacle of relief workers and volunteers often lacking the …
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A Lightweight Approach of Human-Like Playtest for Android Apps
Testing is recognized as a key and challenging factor that can either boost or halt the game development in the mobile game industry. On one hand, manual testing is expensive and time-consuming, especially the wide spectrum of device hardware and software, so called fragmentation, significantly …
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Empirical Studies of Mobile Apps and Their Dependence on Mobile Platforms
… 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 the world every day. However, most software engineering …
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