2021/03/25 by Carsten Vogel, Rüdiger Pryss, Vogel, Carsten +7
Computer Science · Health Professions · Psychology · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems #D.2.13 #Digital Mental Health Interventions #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.4.0 #J.3 #J.4 #Mobile Health and mHealth Applications #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.13954
openalex publication_date 2021/03/25 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Through lockdowns and other severe changes to daily life, almost everyone is\naffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists and medical doctors are - among\nothers - mainly interested in researching, monitoring, and improving physical\nand mental health of the general population. Mobile health apps (mHealth), and\napps conducting ecological momentary assessments (EMA) respectively, can help\nin this context. However, developing such mobile applications poses many\nchallenges like costly software development efforts, strict privacy rules,\ncompliance with ethical guidelines, local laws, and regulations. In this paper,\nwe present TrackYourHealth (TYH), a highly configurable, generic, and modular\nmobile data collection and EMA platform, which enabled us to develop and\nrelease two mobile multi-platform applications related to COVID-19 in just a\nfew weeks. We present TYH and highlight specific challenges researchers and\ndevelopers of similar apps may also face, especially when developing apps\nrelated to the medical field.\n