Mobile Apps for Controlling Heart Rate: A Review and Analysis (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begoña EVida ◽  
Javier Salvador García Sr ◽  
Susel Góngora Alonso ◽  
Begonya Garcia-Zapirain ◽  
Cristiàn Castillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phone Applications ◽  
And Control

BACKGROUND Information and communications technologies are transforming our social interactions and life-styles. One of the most promising applications of information technology is healthcare and wellness management that characterized by early detection of conditions, prevention, and long-term healthcare management. OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this document is to do a study, first about the actual literature about mobile phone applications to measure and control heart-rate and second a study about these applications themselves, analyzing the different app stores more popular nowadays, Google Play Store and iTunes (for Android and iOS devices respectively). METHODS The Web portals and databases that were used to perform the searches are IEEE Explorer, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Springer, ResearchGate, Science Direct and Scopus, taking into account the date of publication from 2010 to 2018, publications in English and Spanish. RESULTS 40 relevant papers have been found related to mobile phone apps to measure and control the heart rate. The results show that of a total of 400 applications found 245 of them are in the Play Store (Android systems) and the remaining 155 were found in the iTunes Store (iOS systems). CONCLUSIONS From the review of the research articles analyzed, it can be said that the most applications found are for Android devices. They occupy 76.53% of the world mobile phone market, while iOS only owns 18.97%.

Branded Mobile Apps: Possibilities for Advertising in an Emergent Mobile Channel

2015 ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Jean M. Brechman ◽  
Steven Bellman ◽  
Robert F. Potter ◽  
Shiree Treleaven-Hassard ◽  
Jennifer A. Robinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Persuasive Advertising ◽  
Mobile Channel ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
Mobile Phone Applications

Marketing professionals are increasingly interested in creating branded mobile phone applications. These “apps” prominently display a brand's identity throughout the user experience, typically in the form of a brand logo, and are designed to perform a range of functions. This article reviews current available research, and specifically addresses two important areas: (1) the effectiveness of mobile phone apps as a form of persuasive advertising and (2) factors that moderate these effects, specifically creative execution style and product category relevance. This article concludes with a discussion of directions for future research.

developing a smart city essentials, execution and evaluation

2018 ◽  
pp. 416-428
Author(s):  
Jude James ◽  
Kazeem Abubakar
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Comprehensive Development

Adoption of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) especially the internet is becoming the largest delivery podium for providing public and private services to the rural and urban populace. This paper adopted the Narrative Textual Case Study (NTCS) using qualitative approach to conduct content analysis of relevant literature. The study observed that over 50% of mankind occupies urban spaces and this will increase to two third by 2050. This situation is as a result of the opportunities that are available in the cities and it spells great challenges on environment, energy need, waste management, etc. Cities are responsible for nearly three quarters of greenhouse gases worldwide and must be seen to be a solution providers too. Hence to maintain high standard of living for the long term cities as well as nations must reduce ecological footprint and seek alternatives to scarce fossil resources. This requires comprehensive development of physical, institutional, social and economic infrastructure. Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy driven mechanisms are essentials for development of Smart Cities.

Freedom and control in the digital age

Human Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-576
Author(s):  
Alkim Erol
Keyword(s):  
Free Space ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
And Control

AbstractMany conceive information and communications technologies (ICT) as providing a free space which bolsters the freedom of individuals. This is because the technologies, and the ways we use them, are thought to be grounded in consent given by individuals. However, it will be argued that individuals, by their own self-regulated consent-based actions when using ICT, are actually alleviating their own individual freedoms. This novel phenomenon, which Deleuze and Guattari have drawn our attention to, is a consequence of the de-territorialization and re-territorialization of desires, shaped by power processes, and practiced within Control Societies. This process is disguised as ‘choices’ made by free and self-aware individuals who give their ‘consent’.

scholarly journals Information and Communications Technologies, Coordination and Control, and the Distribution of Income

2008 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Frederick Guy ◽  
Peter Skott
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Skill Bias ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control ◽  
Distribution Of Income

We consider the links between Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as mediated by problems of coordination and control within organizations. In the large corporations of the mid-twentieth century, a highly developed division of labor was coordinated and controlled with the aid of relatively underdeveloped ICTs. This created a situation in which the options of top management were constrained while the individual and collective power of lower-paid workers was enhanced. Only in the late twentieth century, when the microprocessor and related technologies transformed the information systems of organizations, did improvements in the tools of coordination and control race ahead of the growing demands of coordination and control. These technological changes have reduced the power of lower-paid employees, increased that for higherpaid employees, and led to an increase in income inequality. Thus, the more important aspects of new technology relate to the ‘power-bias’, rather than to the ‘skill-bias’, of technological change.

Suppressed, but Not Forgotten

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Meier ◽  
Anja König ◽  
Samuel Parak ◽  
Katharina Henke
Keyword(s):  
Memory Trace ◽  
Thought Suppression ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Indirect Test ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Test Experiment ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cue Words ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of thought suppression over a 1-week interval. In two experiments with 80 university students each, we used the think/no-think paradigm in which participants initially learn a list of word pairs (cue-target associations). Then they were presented with some of the cue words again and should either respond with the target word or avoid thinking about it. In the final test phase, their memory for the initially learned cue-target pairs was tested. In Experiment 1, type of memory test was manipulated (i.e., direct vs. indirect). In Experiment 2, type of no-think instructions was manipulated (i.e., suppress vs. substitute). Overall, our results showed poorer memory for no-think and control items compared to think items across all experiments and conditions. Critically, however, more no-think than control items were remembered after the 1-week interval in the direct, but not in the indirect test (Experiment 1) and with thought suppression, but not thought substitution instructions (Experiment 2). We suggest that during thought suppression a brief reactivation of the learned association may lead to reconsolidation of the memory trace and hence to better retrieval of suppressed than control items in the long term.

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