{"title":"MeetDurian: A Gameful Mobile App to Prevent COVID-19 Infection","authors":"Dongliang Chen, A. Bucchiarone, Zhihan Lv","doi":"10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00016","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 problem has not gone away with the passing of the seasons. Even though most countries have achieved remarkable results in fighting against epidemic diseases and preventing and controlling viruses, the general public is still far from understanding the new crown virus and lacks imagination on its transmission law. In this paper, we propose MeetDurian: a cross-platform mobile application that exploits a location-based game to improve users’ hygiene habits and reduce virus dispersal. We present its main features, its architecture, and its core technologies. Finally, we report a set of experiments that prove the acceptability and usability of MeetDurian. An illustrative demo of the mobile app features is shown in the following video: https://youtu.be/Vqg7nFDQuOU.","PeriodicalId":257528,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132396071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carsten Vogel, R. Pryss, Johannes Schobel, W. Schlee, Felix Beierle
{"title":"Developing Apps for Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic with the TrackYourHealth Platform","authors":"Carsten Vogel, R. Pryss, Johannes Schobel, W. Schlee, Felix Beierle","doi":"10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00015","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":257528,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124744948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the Feasibility of Web-Request Prediction Models on Mobile Platforms","authors":"Yixue Zhao, Siwei Yin, Adriana Sejfia, Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Haoyu Wang, N. Medvidović","doi":"10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileSoft52590.2021.00008","url":null,"abstract":"Prefetching web pages is a well-studied solution to reduce network latency by predicting users’ future actions based on their past behaviors. However, such techniques are largely unexplored on mobile platforms. Today’s privacy regulations make it infeasible to explore prefetching with the usual strategy of amassing large amounts of data over long periods and constructing conventional, \"large\" prediction models. Our work is based on the observation that this may not be necessary: Given previously reported mobile-device usage trends (e.g., repetitive behaviors in brief bursts), we hypothesized that prefetching should work effectively with \"small\" models trained on mobile-user requests collected during much shorter time periods. To test this hypothesis, we constructed a framework for automatically assessing prediction models, and used it to conduct an extensive empirical study based on over 15 million HTTP requests collected from nearly 11,500 mobile users during a 24-hour period, resulting in over 7 million models. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of prefetching with small models on mobile platforms, directly motivating future work in this area. We further introduce several strategies for improving prediction models while reducing the model size. Finally, our framework provides the foundation for future explorations of effective prediction models across a range of usage scenarios.","PeriodicalId":257528,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133283278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Title Page iii","authors":"Los Alamitos, C. Washington, bullet Tokyo","doi":"10.1109/focs.2018.00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/focs.2018.00002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":257528,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114566274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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