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WorldCIST'18 2018: Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies pp 850–859Cite as

FAMAP: A Framework for Developing m-Health Apps

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Abstract

The edge-cutting mobile technologies have allowed the expansion of m-health applications for both patients and doctors. However, the variety of technologies, platforms and general-purpose development frameworks make developers and researchers to spend a considerable amount of time in developing m-health apps from scratch. This papers presents an ongoing research project about the creation of a framework for assisting developers and researchers in creating m-health apps called FAMAP. This framework is presented for the first time in the current article. Among others, this framework contains components for respectively (1) collecting data, (2) visualizing data analytics, (3) automating the definition and management of questionnaires, (4) implementing agent-based decision support systems and (5) supporting multi-modal communication. To show the utility of the proposed framework, this article presents some well-known and in-progress m-health apps developed with this framework. This work is assessed by considering (a) the usage data to show the commitment of users in one of the apps, and (b) the downloads and ranking in stores of another of the apps.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the research project “Construcción de un framework para agilizar el desarrollo de aplicaciones móviles en el ámbito de la salud” funded by University of Zaragoza and Foundation Ibercaja with grant reference JIUZ-2017-TEC-03.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Systems, University of Zaragoza, Teruel and Zaragoza, Spain

    Iván García-Magariño & Manuel Gonzalez Bedia

  2. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Iván García-Magariño

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications, University of Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain

    Guillermo Palacios-Navarro

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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García-Magariño, I., Gonzalez Bedia, M., Palacios-Navarro, G. (2018). FAMAP: A Framework for Developing m-Health Apps. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L.P., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_83

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