Design of Online Learning Mobile APP for the Elderly Based on Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction (ARCS) Motivation Model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Weishan He ◽  
Zhen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Motivation Model

Design and development of a mobile app to support the care of the elderly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Rodriguez-Duenas ◽  
Karen Aguia-Rojas ◽  
Valeria Valencia-Daza
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Design And Development

scholarly journals BPcontrol

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 1120-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Carrera ◽  
Marc Pifarré ◽  
Jordi Vilaplana ◽  
Josep Cuadrado ◽  
Sara Solsona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operating Systems ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Hypertensive Patients ◽  
Monitoring And Diagnosis ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Communication Efficiency ◽  
Efficiency Factors ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Health Care Centers

SummaryBackground Hypertension or high blood pressure is on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating this condition involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. The current mobile health services can be improved to perform this task more effectively.Objective To develop a useful, user-friendly, robust and efficient app, to monitor hypertensive patients and adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension.Methods This work presents BPcontrol, an Android and iOS app that allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring and diagnosis. Usability, robustness and efficiency factors for BPcontrol were evaluated for different devices and operating systems (Android, iOS and system-aware). Furthermore, its features were compared with other similar apps in the literature.Results BPcontrol is robust and user-friendly. The respective start-up efficiency of the Android and iOS versions of BPcontrol were 2.4 and 8.8 times faster than a system-aware app. Similar values were obtained for the communication efficiency (7.25 and 11.75 times faster for the Android and iOS respectively). When comparing plotting performance, BPcontrol was on average 2.25 times faster in the Android case. Most of the apps in the literature have no communication with a server, thus making it impossible to compare their performance with BPcontrol.Conclusions Its optimal design and the good behavior of its facilities make BPcontrol a very promising mobile app for monitoring hypertensive patients.Citation: Carrera A, Pifarré M, Vilaplana J, Cuadrado J, Solsona S, Mateo J, Solsona F. BPcontrol: a mobile app to monitor hypertensive patients

Fall Prevention and Management App Prototype for the Elderly and Their Caregivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Eseohen Imoukhome ◽  
Lori E. Weeks ◽  
Samina Abidi
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Frailty Index ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
End User ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Potential Improvement

The objective of this article is to develop a validated mobile app prototype to empower the elderly and caregivers to manage falls that provides personalized and actionable educational materials at the point of care and improves the engagement of the elderly and caregiver in adopting validated fall management practices; To determine the usefulness and suitability of a fall management mobile app to the elderly and caregivers. The method used is a knowledge management approach is used to implement the app based on 2 validated models: Patient Health Engagement Model and Rockwood frailty index. A mixed method evaluation including a cognitive walk through is used to collect end-user feedback from the elderly and caregivers, on the usability, usefulness, and suitability of the app. The app was deemed easy to use, informative and understandable. Potential improvement areas include: larger print; less wordy interfaces; better navigation features; data sharing functionalities; and voice readers. These suggestions will be incorporated in the future. The conclusion of this article is that smartphones have vast potential in providing relevant and creditable fall management information to elderly and caregivers.

scholarly journals Survival with Technology: Elderly Teachers’ Perspective Towards Emergency Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
Faramarz Samifanni ◽  
Rose Leslie R Gumanit
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Cost Implications

This study analyzed the content of YouTube news clips on elderly teachers concerning emergency online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using traditional content analysis, the included news videos were transcribed, interview segments were translated and familiarized, dominant words were identified, data were coded, categorized, and themed. Four dominant words were highlighted: online, students, teachers, and pandemic. Three themes on technical challenges and support needs, health issues, and resilience emerged in the analysis. Results show that elderly teachers are persistent to adapt to emergency online learning despite the struggles they are facing. The analysis also highlights the negative effects of the sudden shift to emergency online learning on the physical and psychological health of elderly teachers. Furthermore, the elderly teachers, are ensuring students’ access to education even at their own cost. Implications to the country’s quality of education and suggestions of providing better technical and psychological health support to elderly teachers were presented.

scholarly journals Assessment of mHealth Solutions Applied to Fall Detection for the Elderly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fellipe Soares de Oliveira ◽  
Camila Carvalho da Silva ◽  
Talita Santos Pinheiro ◽  
Larissa Mayumi Yokoi ◽  
Pablo Deoclecia dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Wide Availability

Mobile Health has been increasingly present in healthcare due to the wide availability of applications for smartphones, however, robust assessment methods must be considered, seeking to provide evidence for clinical practice and mHealth solutions. This research presents the assessment of applications aimed at detecting and preventing falls for the elderly, available for Android and IOS, through the Mobile App Rating Scale. Based on the results presented, it can be concluded that the fall detection and prevention applications for the elderly available for Android and IOS showed good quality after rigorous evaluation.

Enabling MOOCs' Usage to Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disabled Users

2016 ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Alfredo Mendoza González ◽  
Francisco Alvarez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
School Students ◽  
New Perspective

The intention of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is to extend online learning worldwide and to the most users as possible. Nowadays MOOCs have been used not only by undergraduate and hig-school students, but also by the elderly and the children. MOOCs have the potential to change the education in a better way to all people, including off course, the cognitive disabled people. From basic mathematics to specialized technical courses, MOOCs may enhance the opportunity to have better educational programs for cognitive disabled users, nevertheless, there are many things to do, about accessibility to guarantee a delightful user experience. This chapter introduces a new perspective to design inclusive MOOCs' interfaces.

scholarly journals Context-aware mobile app for the multidimensional assessment of the elderly

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Berrocal ◽  
Jose Garcia-Alonso ◽  
Juan M. Murillo ◽  
David Mendes ◽  
Cesar Fonseca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Multidimensional Assessment

scholarly journals HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e69
Author(s):  
Josep Cuadrado ◽  
Jordi Vilaplana ◽  
Jordi Mateo ◽  
Francesc Solsona ◽  
Sara Solsona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Home Blood Pressure ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Hypertensive Patients ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Health Care Centers

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating it involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. A tool adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension can greatly facilitate monitoring and diagnosis. This paper presents HBPF, an efficient cloud-based Home Blood Pressure Framework. This allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring for both patients and clinicians. HBPF provides a complete, efficient, and cross-platform framework to follow up hypertensive patients with an SLA guarantee. Response time below one second for 80,000 requests and 28% increase in peak throughput going from one to three virtual machines were obtained. In addition, a mobile app (BP) for Android and iOS with a user-friendly interface is also provided to facilitate following up hypertensive patients. Among them, between 54% and 87% favorably evaluated the tool. BP can be downloaded for free from the website Hesoft Group repository (http://www.hesoftgroup.eu).

scholarly journals HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Cuadrado ◽  
Jordi Vilaplana ◽  
Jordi Mateo ◽  
Francesc Solsona ◽  
Sara Solsona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Home Blood Pressure ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Hypertensive Patients ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Health Care Centers

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating it involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. A tool adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension can greatly facilitate monitoring and diagnosis. This paper presents HBPF, an efficient cloud-based Home Blood Pressure Framework. This allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring for both patients and clinicians. HBPF provides a complete, efficient, and cross-platform framework to follow up hypertensive patients with an SLA guarantee. Response time below one second for 80,000 requests and 28% increase in peak throughput going from one to 3 virtual machines were obtained. In addition, a mobile app (BP) for Android and iOS with a user-friendly interface is also provided to facilitate following up hypertensive patients. Among them, between 54% and 87% favorably evaluated the tool. BP can be downloaded for free from the website Hesoft Group repository (http://www.hesoftgroup.eu).

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