Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform
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 multi-platform 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.
Wed 19 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
15:00 - 16:00 | App Store Analysis and Mobile appsTool Demos and Mobile Apps / Technical Papers at MOBILESoft Room Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota | ||
15:02 10mTalk | Logging Practices with Mobile Analytics: An Empirical Study on Firebase Technical Papers Julian Harty Commercetest Limited, Haonan Zhang Concordia University, Lili Wei The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Luca Pascarella Delft University of Technology, Maurício Aniche Delft University of Technology, Weiyi Shang Concordia University Media Attached | ||
15:12 12mTalk | An earthquake alert system based on a collaborative approach using smart devices Tool Demos and Mobile Apps Irshad Khan Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea., Pandey Manish Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea., Young-Woo Kwon Kyungpook National University Media Attached | ||
15:24 10mTalk | Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform Tool Demos and Mobile Apps Carsten Vogel Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Rüdiger Pryss , Johannes Schobel DigiHealth Institute, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Winfried Schlee , Felix Beierle University of Würzburg, Germany Pre-print Media Attached | ||
15:34 8mTalk | MeetDurian: A Gameful Mobile App to Prevent COVID-19 Infection Tool Demos and Mobile Apps Dongliang Chen Qingdao University, Antonio Bucchiarone Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, Zhihan Lv Qingdao University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
15:42 20mLive Q&A | Q&A and Discussion Technical Papers | ||
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