scholarly journals QDroid: Mobile Application Quality Analyzer for App Market Curators

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemin Lee ◽  
Hyungshin Kim
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Source Codes ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Quality Analyzer ◽  
Manual Review

Low quality mobile applications have damaged the user experience. However, in light of the number of applications, quality analysis is a daunting task. For that reason, QDroid is proposed, an automated quality analyzer that detects the presence of crashes, excessive resource usage, and compatibility problems, without source codes and human involvement. QDroid was applied to 67 applications for evaluation and discovered 78% more crashes and attained 23% higher Activity coverage than Monkey testing. For detecting excessive resource usage and compatibility problems, QDroid reduced the number of applications that required manual review by up to 96% and 69%, respectively.

scholarly journals A INFLUÊNCIA DA ENGENHARIA SEMIÓTICA NA EXPERIÊNCIA DO USUÁRIO DE APLICATIVOS MOBILE: Uma reflexão sobre a relação entre semiose e o desenvolvimento de APPs / THE INFLUENCE OF SEMIOTIC ENGINEERING IN THE USER EXPERIENCE OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS: A reflection on the relationship between semiosis and the development of APPs

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Paulo Carneiro ARAMUNI ◽  
Luís Cláudio Gomes MAIA
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Mobile Development ◽  
Application Developers ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMO. Este artigo apresenta uma abordagem sobre a influência da engenharia semiótica na experiência do usuário de aplicativos mobile. Uma vez que a semiótica se define como o estudo dos signos, dos processos de significação e como os signos e os significados tomam parte na comunicação, os seus estudos estão atualmente voltados para os processos de comunicação mediada por computador entre designers e usuários de sistema, em seus tempos de interação conjunta. Através dos sistemas de interface, por muitos meios diretos e indiretos, designers dizem aos usuários como eles podem ou devem interagir com o sistema, a fim de adquirir um alcance particular de alvos antecipados pelo momento do designing. A mensagem interativa dos designers para os usuários inclui uma “linguagem de interação” que deverá ser utilizada na comunicação de usuários com o sistema. O objetivo deste estudo é ampliar a visão do leitor sobre esta linguagem de interação e a forma como ela é construída no caso de aplicativos móveis. Este estudo contribui com o preenchimento de uma lacuna teórica na compreensão da relação entre semiose e desenvolvimento mobile. Na perspectiva aplicada, a pesquisa oferece contribuições para à comunidade de desenvolvedores de aplicativos móveis quanto à compressão da influência da semiótica na experiência do usuário com a interface do produto desenvolvido. Palavras-chave: Engenharia Semiótica; Experiência do Usuário; Desenvolvimento Mobile.ABSTRACT. This paper presents an approach on the influence of semiotic engineering on the mobile application user experience. Since semiotics is defined as the study of signs, meaning processes, and how signs and meanings take part in communication, their studies are currently focused on the processes of computer-mediated communication between designers and system users, in their times of joint interaction. Through interface systems, by many direct and indirect means, designers tell users how they can or should interact with the system in order to acquire a particular range of anticipated targets by the time of designing. The designers' interactive message for users includes an "interaction language" that should be used in the communication of system users. The purpose of this study is to broaden the reader's view on this interaction language and how it is built in the case of mobile applications. This study contributes to filling a theoretical gap in understanding the relationship between semiosis and mobile development. In the applied perspective, the research offers contributions to the community of mobile application developers regarding the compression of the influence of semiotics on the user experience with the developed product interface. Keywords: Semiotic Engineering; User Experience; Mobile Development.

Mobile Application Benchmarking Based on the Resource Usage Monitoring

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Rawassizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Power Battery

There are many mobile applications currently available on the market, which have been developed specifically for smart phones. The operating systems of these smart phones are flexible in order to facilitate the application development for programmers regardless of the lower layers of the operating system. Mobile phones like other pervasive devices suffer from resource shortages. These resources vary from the power (battery) consumption to the network bandwidth consumption. In this research we identify and classify mobile resources and propose a monitoring approach to measure resource utilization. The authors provide a monitoring tool, which generates traces about the resource usage. Then they propose a benchmarking model which studies traces and enables users to extract qualitative information about the application from quantitative resource usage traces. Results of the study could assist quality operators to compare similar applications from their resource usage point of view, or profile a single application resource consumption.

scholarly journals USER EXPERIENCE EVALUATION AND CREATIVITY STIMULATION WITH AUGMENTED REALITY MOBILE APPLICATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vida Davidavičienė ◽  
Jurgita Raudeliūnienė ◽  
Rima Viršilaitė
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Customer Information ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
Experience Survey ◽  
Consumer Creativity

While customer information and knowledge need transform in the context of globalization and technological change, it is important for organizations to efficiently meet new and changing needs and stimulate consumer creativity through the use of augmented reality mobile applications. In order to solve this kind of problem, it is important to evaluate mobile applications with respect to user experience. The purpose of this study is to evaluate alternative research methods for user experience assessment in augmented reality, to determine whether the selected user experience survey method is suitable for augmented reality mobile applications’ evaluation, and to identify features, which would improve augmented reality mobile applications in order to enhance users’ creativity and positive attitude. The article presents the analysis of theoretical aspects of evaluation of augmented reality mobile applications, the concept of the augmented reality, the augmented reality mobile application evaluation results and the recommendations for the user’s creativity stimulation. Research methods such as scientific literature analysis and user experience survey are used to achieve the purpose of the article.

Self-Adapting Acquisition of Sensor Data in Mobile Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 2339-2344
Author(s):  
Chao Wang ◽  
Chun Hong Zhang ◽  
Ji Yang
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Real Time ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Time Requirement ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Common Application

A mobile application meets the highly real-time requirement for data in sensor networks. However mobile applications have to handle many difficulties that do not exist in non-mobile environment. For example, the wireless network provided for mobile is slow, expensive and bandwidth-limited. So mobile application cannot acquire sensor data like a common application does, which will consume a large share of bandwidth, CPU and memory. To address this issue, we propose our design that will limit the concurrently acquisition of the sensor data with a self-adapting mechanism. It can lower the overhead of the system significantly and whats more, it hardly reduces the user experience even in the situation that the total acquisition frequency is limited.

scholarly journals PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF NATIVE AND CROSS-PLATFORM MOBILE APPLICATIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Grzmil ◽  
Maria Skublewska-Paszkowska ◽  
Edyta Łukasik ◽  
Jakub Smołka
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Mobile Application Development ◽  
Cross Platform

This article presents the performance analysis of a cross-platform mobile application implemented with Xamarin and two native applications for Android and iOS platforms. The results concerning the time analysis for selected activities were compared in order to determine whether cross-platform tools are worth using in mobile application development. Native applications achieved better performance, however in some cases the cross-platform approach allows for significant development time reduction without deterioration in user experience.

Sustaining Job Performance through Technology Acceptance with Usage of Whatsapp Mobile Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Nor Hayati Kassim ◽  
Norlina Mohamed Noor ◽  
Jati Kasuma ◽  
Juliza Saleh ◽  
Ceaser Dealwis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Willingness To Use

Companies are now recognizing that their employees require a spectrum of mobile applications in order to achieve maximum efficiency at the workplace. Mobile applications such as WeChat, Twitter and WhatsApp via smartphones have become influential tools and extensively used by employees at the workplace. This state-of-the-art technology in communication has penetrated various fields, including routine administrative jobs at the workplace. The objective of this research is toinvestigate the acceptance of the WhatsApp mobile application for formal use among support staff at The Commission of the City of Kuching North, Sarawak (DBKU). Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavioral intention of the users in using WhatsApp are the variables measured for job performance. The researchers utilized convenience sampling, whereby a total of 105 employees from two departments participated in the investigation. Data was collected using a set of selfadministered questionnaires which was adapted from Davis. The findings revealed that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of WhatsApp as a means of communication were significant for job performance at DBKU. The employees felt more competent during their formal interaction at the workplace as less effort was needed while using WhatsApp. The existence of features which were user-friendly and easy operational functions helped to create positive attitudes when utilizing the application. Faster feedback, ease of use, and convenience were some of the reasons for the employees’ willingness to use WhatsApp for communication at the workplace.

Emerging Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile Commerce in India: A Study on Societal Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Utkarsh Kumar ◽  
Anil Kumar Gope ◽  
Shweta Singh
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Societal Perspective ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile Banking ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The People ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

In India, the position of mobile banking was in saga and this time, it is in pic position. The speedof reaching the people is going high and high. This is time of wireless world and sense of prestige; no doubt the mobile commerce is contributing to enhance the beauty of life and playing the role of metaphor and has become the part and parcel of our life. This growth has changed people to do business in mobile commerce (М- Commerce). Peoples are transferring to M-Commerce to attain good and fast transaction into market and saving their precious time. M-Commerce has become distinguished in Indian people, quickly during last few years. Due to large number of mobile application, growth rate in mobile penetration in India is increasing with the rapid speed. The mobile users has shifted to use the android phone from simple and black and white phone and taking the service of internet, the role of telecom companies is also important in the being popular of mobile commerce. Although many people have started E-Commerce but still a separate part of the society feel uncomfortable and hesitate to use M-Commerce because of security problems, payment issues and complexity of mobile applications. This paper identifies facts about the feasibility of MCommercein India today its growth and the Strength and opportunity, weakness and threats lying ahead.

Development of “My Retainers” mobile application: Triangulation of two qualitative methods (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalya Al-Moghrabi ◽  
Fiorella Beatriz Colonio-Salazar ◽  
Ama Johal ◽  
Padhraig Seamus Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Participant Preferences ◽  
Orthodontic Retainers ◽  
Purposive Sample

BACKGROUND Diligent wear of removable orthodontic retainers requires prolonged compliance and is invariably necessary to preserve optimal results. Patient-informed behaviour-change interventions represent a promising and novel means of enhancing compliance with retainer wear. OBJECTIVE To describe the development of a patient-informed mobile application aimed to enhance retainer wear. METHODS Four aspects were considered during mobile application development: participant preferences; analysis of publicly-available retainer-related posts on Twitter; available interventions; and behaviour-change theories. Audio-recorded one-to-one interviews were conducted with a subset of participants to account for patient preferences in terms of features, design and content. A criterion-based purposive sample of participants wearing vacuum-formed retainers for at least 4 years was used. Thematic analysis of transcribed data was undertaken. RESULTS The need to facilitate communication with the treating clinician, responsive reminder and tracking systems, and access to useful and engaging written and visual information, in addition to other personalised and interactive features were considered important. Concerns related to retainer wear shared on Twitter informed an exhaustive list of frequently-asked questions. Application features were mapped to relevant theoretical constructs. Determinants of existing behavioural change theories were used to link application features to expected outcomes. CONCLUSIONS A holistic process involving both patient and professional input can be useful in informing the development of mobile applications. The orthodontic application (“My Retainers”) will undergo further scrutiny in relation to its effectiveness in inducing behavioural change and concerning patient experiences prior to finalisation.

scholarly journals Acceptability of a Mobile Application in Children’s Oral Health Promotion—A Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3256
Author(s):  
Kirsi Rasmus ◽  
Antti Toratti ◽  
Saujanya Karki ◽  
Paula Pesonen ◽  
Marja-Liisa Laitala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Oral Health Promotion ◽  
Oral Health Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Children’S Oral Health

The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the acceptability of an oral health-related mobile application developed for young children based on the feedback given by the children and their parents. Another aim was to evaluate the self-reported change in children’s oral health behaviors during a short test period. The application—a virtual pet integrated into a child’s daily routines—aimed to promote oral hygiene and dietary behaviors in children. A total of 36 4–12-year-old voluntary children were given a mobile phone with the installed application. After the 5-week testing period, the feasibility of the application and possible changes in the children’s oral health behaviors were asked using an electronic questionnaire. Most of the children considered the application clear (n = 34), amusing (n = 31), and useful (n = 29). The children’s tooth brushing manners improved both qualitatively and quantitatively: the time used for tooth brushing increased and the children learned how to brush different tooth surfaces. Mobile applications can be fun and useful in oral health promotion; while playing, children can learn good oral health-related behaviors. Mobile applications integrate oral health promotion into children’s daily environment and routines.

scholarly journals On Using a Mobile Application to Support Teledermatology: A Case Study in an Underprivileged Area in Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Sáenz ◽  
Mónica Paola Novoa ◽  
Darío Correal ◽  
Bell Raj Eapen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Correct Diagnosis ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Forest Regions ◽  
The Face

Background. The use of mobile applications in dermatology to support remote diagnosis is gaining acceptance, particularly in rural areas, where dermatology services are commonly managed by healthcare personnel with no specialty training. Moreover, ontologies—sets of concepts that represent knowledge in a given domain—are increasingly being used to support medical diagnosis. A specific case is ONTODerm: an ontology to aid dermatological diagnosis. However, there is little information on the combined use of mobile applications and ontologies as support solutions in dermatology. Objective. Assessing the reliability of ONTODerm as a tool to support remote dermatological diagnosis when used together with a mobile dermatological application in underprivileged areas. Methods. A mobile application that allows characterization of skin lesions was developed, and the information about the lesions was sent to ONTODerm. An exploratory study was conducted in a remote area without access to a dermatologist. A total of 64 dermatological queries were recorded in the application and consulted with ONTODerm. Later, an experienced dermatologist evaluated the characterization and diagnosis of each query to determine the accuracy of the system. Results. The results showed that the probability of obtaining a correct diagnosis was between 64.4% and 85.6% with a confidence interval of 95%. A higher accuracy rate was obtained when the skin lesion occurred on the face or when its border was categorized as poorly demarcated. Conclusions. This study demonstrates the implementation of a teledermatology strategy based on mobile applications and domain ontology-driven knowledge base to provide timely assistance to healthcare professionals. This approach was found to be pertinent in the Colombian rural context, particularly in forest regions, where dermatology specialists are not available. The results of this article do not represent a final validation of the proposed approach; they suggest how the ontology can be improved to effectively support medical staff in marginalized regions.

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