| Creators: |
Vogel, Carsten and Pryss, Rüdiger and Schobel, Johannes and Schlee, Winfried and Beierle, Felix |
| Title: |
Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform |
| Item Type: |
Article or issue of a publication series |
| Event Title: |
(Proceedings of the) 2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft) |
| Event Location: |
Madrid, Spain |
| Event Dates: |
May, 17-19, 2021 |
| Projects: |
DigiHealth, TrackYourHealth, MobileDataCollection |
| Journal or Series Title: |
arXiv:2103.13954 |
| Date: |
25 March 2021 |
| Divisions: |
Gesundheitsmanagement |
| Abstract (ENG): |
Through lockdowns and other severe changes to daily life, almost everyone is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scientists and medical doctors are – among others – mainly
interested in researching, monitoring, and improving physical and mental health of the general population. Mobile health apps (mHealth), and apps conducting ecological momentary assessments (EMA) respectively, can help in this context. However, developing such mobile applications poses many challenges like costly software development efforts, strict privacy rules, compliance with ethical guidelines, local laws, and regulations. In this paper, we present TrackYourHealth (TYH), a highly configurable, generic, and modular mobile data collection and EMA platform, which enabled us to develop and release two mobile multiplatform applications related to COVID-19 in just a few weeks.
We present TYH and highlight specific challenges researchers
and developers of similar apps may also face, especially when developing apps related to the medical field. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Link eMedia: |
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| Citation: |
Vogel, Carsten and Pryss, Rüdiger and Schobel, Johannes and Schlee, Winfried and Beierle, Felix
(2021)
Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform.
arXiv:2103.13954.
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