mPOW – Mobile Support for Health Care Students on Work Placements

Eric Bonnici, Samia Oussena

2015

Abstract

This paper outlines the development of a mobile application called “mPOW” as part of a KT (Knowledge Transfer) partnership project between the University of West London and Arc Technology Ltd. The aim of this project is to provide improved support for HE (Higher Education) students while on a work placement. The design considerations and solutions for designing a cross-platform application are discussed and presented, and the result is an app that is applicable to students from various universities who attend a range of distinct work placements. The application may also be used online as well as offline with the result that students are not tied down to space and time.

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in Harvard Style

Bonnici E. and Oussena S. (2015). mPOW – Mobile Support for Health Care Students on Work Placements . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 81-88. DOI: 10.5220/0005446300810088


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist15,
author={Eric Bonnici and Samia Oussena},
title={mPOW – Mobile Support for Health Care Students on Work Placements},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={81-88},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005446300810088},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - mPOW – Mobile Support for Health Care Students on Work Placements
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - Bonnici E.
AU - Oussena S.
PY - 2015
SP - 81
EP - 88
DO - 10.5220/0005446300810088