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ArticleJournal of medical systems2018

Reusable Software Usability Specifications for mHealth Applications.

Belén Cruz Zapata, José Luis Fernández-Alemán, Ambrosio Toval, Ali Idri

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Article in Journal of medical systems, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Automated Workflow for Usability Audits in the PHR Realm.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  4. Investigating usability of mobile health applications in Bangladesh.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020
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  6. Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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Belén Cruz ZapataDepartment of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus de Espinardo, University of Murcia, 30080, Murcia, Espinardo, Spain. b.cruzzapata@um.es.
José Luis Fernández-AlemánDepartment of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus de Espinardo, University of Murcia, 30080, Murcia, Espinardo, Spain.
Ambrosio TovalDepartment of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Campus de Espinardo, University of Murcia, 30080, Murcia, Espinardo, Spain.
Ali IdriSoftware Project Management Research Team, ENSIAS, Mohammed V Souissi University, Rabat, Morocco.

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Abstract

One of the key factors for the adoption of mobile technologies, and in particular of mobile health applications, is usability. A usable application will be easier to use and understand by users, and will improve user's interaction with it. This paper proposes a software requirements catalog for usable mobile health applications, which can be used for the development of new applications, or the evaluation of existing ones. The catalog is based on the main identified sources in literature on usability and mobile health applications. Our catalog was organized according to the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2011 standard and follows the SIREN methodology to create reusable catalogs. The applicability of the catalog was verified by the creation of an audit method, which was used to perform the evaluation of a real app, S Health, application created by Samsung Electronics Co. The usability requirements catalog, along with the audit method, identified several usability flaws on the evaluated app, which scored 83%. Some flaws were detected in the app related to the navigation pattern. Some more issues related to the startup experience, empty screens or writing style were also found. The way a user navigates through an application improves or deteriorates user's experience with the application. We proposed a reusable usability catalog and an audit method. This proposal was used to evaluate a mobile health application. An audit report was created with the usability issues identified on the evaluated application.

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Mobile ApplicationsSmartphoneSoftware DesignHumansTelemedicineUser-Computer InterfacemHealthReuseSmartphoneSoftware requirements specificationUsability

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