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Applications of Smartphone Sensors in Science and Engineering

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 3826

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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, we have all become aware of the many useful applications of smartphones in science and technology. Their increasing power and common use make them valuable devices in a broad range of contexts. Our smartphones bear a variety of sensors which enable their use in numerous applications. Barometers, accelerometers, luxometers, and magnetometers, among others, can be used to make measurements with a good level of precision. The data registered with one or more sensors can be collected, combined, sent to remote servers, stored, or processed by smartphone apps. Ultimately, behind each useful mobile application, there is a fruitful encounter of developers and professionals from a variety of disciplines, leading to the production of valuable, creative solutions to important problems.

For this Special Issue, we invite researchers and professionals from different disciplines to contribute with their recent works on smartphone sensors applications. Our goal is to put together researchers and mobile app developers in order to give shape to an informative collection of regular research articles and topical reviews, which put in prospective the value of the important uses of smartphone sensors in science and technology.

We especially, but not exclusively, welcome works on relevant and low-cost applications in areas such as science and engeneering, education, healthcare, wellbeing, diagnosis of disease, the environment, and elderly care, with a focus on their utility for a broad public.

Dr. Juan Carlos Castro-Palacio
Dr. Juan A. Monsoriu
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Exploiting Mobile Gamification to Foster Physical Activity: A Remotely-Managed Field Study
by Giorgio Olivas Martinez, Valeria Orso, Alice Bettelli and Luciano Gamberini
Sensors 2023, 23(5), 2598; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052598 - 26 Feb 2023
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Physical inactivity is a plague for public health, especially in Western Countries. Among the countermeasures, mobile applications promoting physical activity seem particularly promising, thanks to the spread and adoption of mobile devices. However, the dropout rates of users are high, thereby calling for [...] Read more.
Physical inactivity is a plague for public health, especially in Western Countries. Among the countermeasures, mobile applications promoting physical activity seem particularly promising, thanks to the spread and adoption of mobile devices. However, the dropout rates of users are high, thereby calling for strategies to increase retention rates. Moreover, user testing can be problematic, because it is typically conducted in a laboratory, leading to a limited ecological validity. In the present research, we developed a custom mobile app to promote physical activity. Three versions of the app were implemented, each featuring a different pattern of gamification elements. Moreover, the app was designed to work as a self-managed experimental platform. A remote field study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the different versions of the app. Behavioral log data of physical activity and interaction with the app were collected. Our results show the feasibility of using a mobile app running on personal devices as an independently managed experimental platform. Moreover, we found that gamification elements per se do not ensure higher retention rates, rather it emerged that the richer combination of gamified elements was effective. Full article
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