mHealthSwarm: A Unified Platform for mHealth Applications

Ben Philip, Yasmeen Alshehhi, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Scott Barnett, Alessio Bonti, John Grundy

2023

Abstract

Mobile health (mHealth) applications are ubiquitous and offer several benefits such as easier access to one’s health and wellness data through smartphones. However, their growth in popularity has also introduced several challenges for both end-users and developers. Users face challenges around the poor user experience (UX) introduced by the need to install several apps and limited customizability which is exacerbated by the limited control over app functionality. While features common across different apps may not directly affect individual developers, the fact that one app may provide a better implementation of features leads to wasted developer effort. A single platform that can satisfy all user needs does not currently exist, and given the diversity of the mHealth domain, a single app would be far too complex if it existed. In this paper, we present a new approach and a platform for mHealth apps - micro-mHealth apps, and we discuss them as an alternative to the current mHealth app development model, which we believe could improve the current state of mHealth app development and adoption. We are currently evaluating our prototype with several micro-mHealth apps built using common features in the mHealth apps available in commercial app stores.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Philip B., Alshehhi Y., Abdelrazek M., Barnett S., Bonti A. and Grundy J. (2023). mHealthSwarm: A Unified Platform for mHealth Applications. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-647-7, SciTePress, pages 605-612. DOI: 10.5220/0011985600003464

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase23,
author={Ben Philip and Yasmeen Alshehhi and Mohamed Abdelrazek and Scott Barnett and Alessio Bonti and John Grundy},
title={mHealthSwarm: A Unified Platform for mHealth Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2023},
pages={605-612},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011985600003464},
isbn={978-989-758-647-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - mHealthSwarm: A Unified Platform for mHealth Applications
SN - 978-989-758-647-7
AU - Philip B.
AU - Alshehhi Y.
AU - Abdelrazek M.
AU - Barnett S.
AU - Bonti A.
AU - Grundy J.
PY - 2023
SP - 605
EP - 612
DO - 10.5220/0011985600003464
PB - SciTePress