Why my app crashes? Understanding and benchmarking framework-specific exceptions of android apps by Su, Ting, Fan, Lingling, Chen, Sen, Liu, Yang, Xu, Lihua, Pu, Geguang, Su, Zhendong

“…Mobile apps have become ubiquitous. Ensuring their correctness and reliability is important. …”
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Use of apps to promote childhood vaccination: systematic review by de Cock, C, Van Velthoven, M, Milne-Ives, M, Mooney, M, Meinert, E

“…The potential for leveraging mobile platforms to promote vaccination coverage has been investigated in the development of numerous mobile apps. Whilst many are available for public use, there is little robust evaluation of these applications.…”

Portraying Citizens’ Occupations and Assessing Urban Occupation Mixture with Mobile Phone Data: A Novel Spatiotemporal Analytical Framework by Xiaoming Zhang, Feng Gao, Shunyi Liao, Fan Zhou, Guanfang Cai, Shaoying Li

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Alternative and Augmentative Communication Technologies for Supporting Adults With Mild Intellectual Disabilities During Clinical Consultations: Scoping Review by Gibson, Ryan Colin, Bouamrane, Matt-Mouley, Dunlop, Mark D

“…Only 3 studies explored the use of mobile apps to promote communication. Their findings indicated that high-tech solutions offer greater customization with regard to the accessibility and health care needs of people with ID. …”
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Mobile Health Apps for Pregnant Women: Systematic Search, Evaluation, and Analysis of Features by Gabriela Frid, Kelly Bogaert, Katherine T Chen

“…ObjectiveOur objective is to identify pregnancy mobile apps and to evaluate the apps using a modified APPLICATIONS (app comprehensiveness, price, privacy, literature used, in-app purchases, connectivity, advertisements, text search field, images/videos, other special features, navigation ease, subjective presentation) scoring system. …”
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Insights From Google Play Store User Reviews for the Development of Weight Loss Apps: Mixed-Method Analysis by Frie, Kerstin, Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie, Jebb, Susan, Albury, Charlotte, Nourse, Rebecca, Aveyard, Paul

“…MethodsThe Google Play Store was searched and screened for weight loss apps using the search terms weight loss and weight track*, resulting in 179 mobile apps. A content analysis was conducted based on the Oxford Food and Activity Behaviors taxonomy. …”
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Effectiveness of Mobile Health Interventions on Diabetes and Obesity Treatment and Management: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews by Wang, Youfa, Min, Jungwon, Khuri, Jacob, Xue, Hong, Xie, Bo, A Kaminsky, Leonard, J Cheskin, Lawrence

“…ResultsThe reviews primarily focused on the use of mobile apps and text messaging and the self-monitoring and management function of mHealth programs in patients with diabetes and obesity. …”
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A novel GPU based Geo-Location Inference Attack on WebGL framework by Weixian Mai, Yinhao Xiao

“…However, such an attack has a critical drawback that it requires a victim to install desktop applications or mobile apps yielding it uneasy to be deployed in the real world. …”
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Assessing intrusiveness of smartphone apps by Zhang, Fan, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Regulatory technologies for the study of data and platform power in the app economy by Kollnig, K

“…<p>Tracking, the large-scale collection of data about user behaviour, is commonplace in mobile apps. While some see tracking as a necessary evil to making apps available at lower prices by showing users personalised advertising and selling their data to third parties, tracking can also have highly disproportionate effects on the lives of individuals and society as a whole. …”

Mobile Phone App Use Among Pregnant Women in China and Associations Between App Use and Perinatal Outcomes: Retrospective Study by Puhong Zhang, Huan Chen, Jie Shang, Jun Ge, Huichen Zhang, Mingjun Xu, Cui Bian, Yang Zhao, Minyuan Chen, Jane Elizabeth Hirst

“… BackgroundMaternal and child health (MCH)–related mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular among pregnant women; however, few apps have demonstrated that they lead to improvements in pregnancy outcomes. …”
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The Role of Physicians in Digitalizing Health Care Provision: Web-Based Survey Study by Anja Burmann, Max Tischler, Mira Faßbach, Sophie Schneitler, Sven Meister

“…ResultsThe 1274 participants included in the study generally showed a high affinity towards digitalization with a mean of 3.88 on a 5-point Likert scale; 723 respondents (56.75%) stated they personally use mobile apps in their everyday working life, with a weak tendency to be associated with the respondents’ age (η=0.26). …”
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Efficacy of mHealth Interventions for Improving the Pain and Disability of Individuals With Chronic Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Bruna de Melo Santana, Julia Raffin Moura, Aline Martins de Toledo, Thomaz Nogueira Burke, Livia Fernandes Probst, Fernanda Pasinato, Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro

“…Despite the considerable number of apps for low back pain available in app stores, the effectiveness of these technologies is not established, and there is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of the isolated use of mobile apps in the self-management of low back pain. …”
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Public Perceptions of Diabetes, Healthy Living, and Conversational Agents in Singapore: Needs Assessment by Dhakshenya Ardhithy Dhinagaran, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Tobias Kowatsch, Konstadina Griva, James Donovan Best, Lorainne Tudor Car

“…Most participants used health-related mobile apps as well as conversational agents unrelated to health care. …”
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Comparison of Aerial and Ground 3D Point Clouds for Canopy Size Assessment in Precision Viticulture by Andrea Pagliai, Marco Ammoniaci, Daniele Sarri, Riccardo Lisci, Rita Perria, Marco Vieri, Mauro Eugenio Maria D’Arcangelo, Paolo Storchi, Simon-Paolo Kartsiotis

“…In recent years, technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Mobile Laser Scanners (MLS), multispectral sensors, Mobile Apps (MA) and Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques enabled the possibility to characterize this variability with low efforts. …”
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Validation of an Electronic Visual Analog Scale App for Pain Evaluation in Children and Adolescents With Symptomatic Hypermobility: Cross-sectional Study by Muhammad Maarj, Verity Pacey, Louise Tofts, Matthew Clapham, Xavier Gironès Garcia, Andrea Coda

“… BackgroundRapid advances in mobile apps for clinical data collection for pain evaluation have resulted in more efficient data handling and analysis than traditional paper-based approaches. …”
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92090 Novel use of REDCap to develop a Crisis Management Decision-Support Portal at an Academic Medical Center by Barbara Tafuto, Megha Master, Doreen Waldron Lechner

“…OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Crisis management is fundamental to ensuring the protection of human subjects during a clinical trial. Mobile apps have the capacity to allow for quick access to crisis response plans and can serve to mitigate their impact on clinical research. …”
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System Usability Scale Benchmarking for Digital Health Apps: Meta-analysis by Maciej Hyzy, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Lu Bai, Alan Dix, Simon Leigh, Sophie Hunt

“…However, the SUS was not specifically designed to evaluate mobile apps, or in particular digital health apps (DHAs). …”
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Digital Self-Management Support Tools in the Care Plan of Patients With Cancer: Review of Randomized Controlled Trials by Danielle JM Adriaans, Angelique TM Dierick-van Daele, Marc Johannes Hubertus Maria van Bakel, Grard AP Nieuwenhuijzen, Joep AW Teijink, Fanny FBM Heesakkers, Hanneke WM van Laarhoven

“…Most interventions were web-based interventions; 2 studies used mobile apps, and 1 study used a game as a DSMST. The overall quality of the studies was found to be good, with 13 out of 19 studies classified as high quality. …”
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Comparison of Natural Language Processing Models for Depression Detection in Chatbot Dialogues by Belser, Christian Alexander

“…In order to address this need, there is an emerging interest in using computer algorithms to automatically screen for depression, which offers the potential to be widely deployed to the public via clinical websites and mobile apps. Within this field, Dr. Fletcher’s group at MIT develops mobile platforms that are used to support mental health wellness and psychotherapy, including tools to screen for mental health disorders and refer people to treatment. …”
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