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In achieving sustainable development goals, every society and person has the responsibility to attempt to eliminate poverty, protect the environment, and ensure that all people live in peace and prosperity. In order to fulfill this responsibility, it...

Cross-platform mobile application development has gained significant traction in recent years, driven by the growing demand for efficient, cost-effective solutions that cater to both iOS and Android platforms. This paper presents a state-of-the-art r...

Mobile usage statistics show the one thing that cannot be overlooked, which is the overwhelming usage of smartphones. According to the statistics, there are approximately 6.4 billion users of smartphones. Considering the world population, this rate o...

This study presents the design, development, and evaluation of iSign, an Android-based educational mobile application developed to support sign language learning among deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in rural communities. The project was conduct...

Digital innovations have changed the way many industries operate, but the construction industry has been slow to adopt these technologies. However, challenges such as low productivity, project overruns, labor shortages, and inefficient performance ma...

This article presents the concept and principles of digital technology for community development and community developers. An approach for creating no-code mobile applications for community developers’ fieldwork surveys is also proposed to orga...

In the face of escalating global challenges related to the climate crisis, depletion of natural resources, and growing social inequalities, tourism—one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide—must undergo a transformation toward more...

Nowadays, eco-accounting is widely used in sustainable consumption and production. In order to incentivise consumers’ sustainable consumption and enhance their environmental awareness, a novel mobile based eco-accounting infrastructure has been...

Estimation methods are continuously being adapted to obtain better and clearer estimations needed to achieve development goals. Some estimation methods were invented before the modern mobile application technology that is currently available. Thus, t...

Nowadays, mobile applications are essential tools for everyday life, providing users with anytime, anywhere access to up-to-date information, communication, and entertainment. Needless to say, hardware limitations and the diverse needs of different u...

This work presents a mobile application to complement and reinforce the specific physical activities in children through training prior to such activities and monitoring their progress after it. This experiment has been developed on a healthy populat...

Rabies remains a significant public health concern, primarily due to unregistered pets and insufficient vaccination monitoring. This study introduces PetVax, a mobile application designed to address rabies cases by facilitating pet registration, vacc...

Purpose: This study aimed to develop a concept for a mobile health application, an app-based exercise tool, to support the treatment of orofacial myofunctional disorders by speech-language therapists. Method: A sequential mixed research design combin...

The Fruit Harvest Helper, a mobile application developed by Northwest Nazarene University’s (NNU) Robotics Vision Lab, aims to assist farmers in estimating fruit yield for apple orchards. Currently, farmers manually estimate the fruit yield for...

This study presents a novel low-cost and low-power prepaid water meter system that combines tokenization and LC sensors to monitor water consumption accurately with mobile application via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity compared to convention...

Mobile application development is a highly competitive environment; agile methodologies can enable teams to provide value faster, with higher quality and predictability, and a better attitude to deal with the continuous changes that will arise in the...

Trust in information and communication technology devices is an important factor, considering the role of technology in carrying out supporting tasks in everyday human activities. The level of trust in technology will influence its application and ad...

Monitoring the process of musculoskeletal rehabilitation is of great importance for ensuring a person’s health after suffering from illnesses, especially during the outpatient period when medical supervision is absent. The aim of this study is...

College students are at a high risk of mental health problems due to continuous exposure to considerable stress as they transition into adulthood. It is necessary to reflect on young people’s needs and provide brief, personalized support interv...

Smart mobile devices, due to their ubiquitous nature and high level penetration in everyday life, can be a key component of an Ambient Assisted Living system to improve the quality of life of older people. This paper presents the development and eval...

We have developed a mobile phone application for measuring the intake of dietary fiber and validated the ability of the application to accurately capture this intake against measurements registered by a dietary record. We also investigated what food...

Epileptic seizure detection classification distinguishes between epileptic and non-epileptic signals and is an important step that can aid doctors in diagnosing and treating epileptic seizures. In this paper, we studied the existing epileptic seizure...

Background/Objectives: In recent decades, new technologies have been progressively integrated into various areas of mental health care. Mobile applications are potentially effective tools that allow psychiatric patients themselves to access self-mana...

Due to COVID-19, non-F2F (non-face-to-face) learning is being conducted in educational sites around the world. Unlike theoretical subjects, which have a variety of applicable non-F2F learning content, in practical subjects, learners may undergo many...

In this study, we present the custom development and implementation of a mobile application designed specifically to experiment with Malus’s law, leveraging the integration of a LEGO EV3 and the light sensor of a mobile device. Unlike previous...

Emotion recognition ability is the basis of interpersonal communication and detection of brain alterations. Existing tools for assessing emotion recognition ability are mostly single modality, paper-and-pencil test format, and using only Western stim...

Accurate simulation modeling of the danger zone and real-time visualization of the toxic cloud spread during a fire and explosion at an industrial facility in a nearby urban area are in demand by rescue services conducting evacuation. Using a cellula...

Tourism on the island of Santa Maria, Azores, has been increasing due to its characteristics in terms of biodiversity and geodiversity. This island has several hiking trails; the available information can be consulted in pamphlets and physical placar...

With the tremendous growth in mobile phones, mobile application development is an important emerging arena. Moreover, various applications fail to serve the purpose of getting the attention of the intended users, which is determined by their User Int...

Recently, the Korean government has enforced disclosure of building energy performance, so that such information can help owners and prospective buyers to make suitable investment plans. Such a building energy performance policy of the government mak...

The use of Personal Mobile Terrestrial System (PMTS) has increased considerably for mobile mapping applications because these systems offer dynamic data acquisition with ground perspective in places where the use of wheeled platforms is unfeasible, s...

Primiparous women usually experience various parenting problems after childbirth that have negative effects on the well-being of mothers and infants. Although e-Support technology could provide an innovative and easily accessible intervention approac...

Background: Loneliness poses a significant threat to the quality of life of older adults. Therefore, it is essential to implement non-face-to-face services to solve the loneliness of older adults in the community. Objectives: This study used the ADDI...

Female sports science has historically relied on evidence derived largely from male cohorts, despite known menstrual-cycle-related hormonal effects on thermoregulation, metabolism, and performance in women. We developed an Android application to supp...

This paper presents advances in the development of specialized mobile applications for combat decision support utilizing augmented reality technologies used for the production of contextual data delivered to any tactical smartphone. Handhelds and dec...

The Communication and Tracing App HIV (COMTRAC-HIV) project aims to develop a mobile health application for integrated care of HIV patients due to the low availability of those apps in Germany. This study addressed organizational conditions and neces...

Child maltreatment (CM) has been enormously studied. However, a preventive practice still requires comprehensive and effective instruments to assess the risks for CM in a family context. The aim of this study is to describe the development process of...

Mobile reading applications often separate text reading from audiobook playback, limiting multimodal learning. This study proposes a cross-platform mobile application integrating synchronized text–audio interaction within a unified interface. D...

A pyroelectric temperature sensor for measuring human body temperature with increased accuracy and speed for application in mobile robotic systems has been developed. This pyroelectric temperature sensor for measuring human body temperature is intend...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant global public health issue that requires accessible, scalable, and contextually appropriate interventions. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies provide a promising platform to deliver support, informat...

Collecting patient’s medical data is essential for emergency care. Although hospital-tethered personal health records (PHRs) can provide accurate data, they are not available as electronic information when the hospital does not develop and supp...

Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health challenge, and digital health technologies offer new opportunities to support self-management. Mobile applications can benefit both patients and healthcare professionals; however, awareness and integration...

The present study aimed to develop a healthcare application for the elderly who suspect or know they have a hearing loss, namely, the Hearing Rehabilitation for Older Adults (HeRO), which is available in a mobile device, and then to confirm its proba...

Currently, with the widespread penetration of mobile devices with Internet access, including the smartphones, they can allow specific and/or complementary activities in the health field as well as in other commercial sectors. To verify the impact of...

Persons living with HIV (PLWH) continuously experience symptom burdens. Their symptom prevalence and severity are also quite different. Mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) offer exceptional opportunities for using personalized interventions w...

We introduce an approach that supports researchers and practitioners to determine the quality of first-time user experience (FTUX) and long-term user experience (LTUX), as well as to identify critical issues with these two types of UX. The product we...

The high prevalence of skin diseases in resource-poor settings, where health workers with sufficient knowledge of skin diseases are scarce, calls for innovative measures. Timely diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases, especially neglected tropical...

Smart assistive technologies such as sensor-based footwear and walking aids offer promising opportunities for gait rehabilitation through real-time feedback and patient-centered monitoring. While biofeedback applications show great potential, current...

Mobile devices have become the most used tool for a large number of tasks that we regularly perform such as relating them, searching for information, and in particular for making purchases. A situation that is frequently repeated in many areas is dis...

Farmers need to know the actual nutrient concentrations in organic manures in order to enable optimal crop nutrition and to avoid nutrient losses into the environment. Physicochemical quick tests offer a way to estimate nutrient concentrations on a f...