• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.65-72
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• 2016

A mobile healthcare application is a healthcare software application designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphone and tablet computers. Mobile healthcare applications have enormous potential for monitoring and care everyday living of patient with chronic disease. In fact, mobile healthcare applications are found to be active in various fields. However, the development is rarely done in Korean medicine field. The aim of this study was to develop the healthcare application based on the tongue diagnosis. The process included planning, designing, programming, and revising. Through a pilot study, the application was found the improvement requirement, and to be usable in the real-life settings.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.18-29
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• 2019

In the field of Human-Computer Interaction design, persuasive design has gradually been applied to the system development and design process, especially for mobile application design. However, most mobile applications have hitherto a very short using lifecycle. Especially, design features with long-term persuasive effectiveness remain to be further researched and developed. In this study, we focused on investigating and identifying the durative persuasive design characteristics through a data mining process and evaluating the durative effectiveness through a long-term observation process. Total five hundred healthcare-related mobile applications were selected from Apple iTunes Store and a mixed method was conducted to extract the most common persuasive design characteristics. Based on the results of extraction, a representative healthcare-related mobile application was selected as experimental subject. Total one hundred and twenty participants were observed during a six-months experiment and the monitoring data of app usage of all participants was collected once a week. According to the evaluation model for behavior change identification process, participants with habit formation features were proved to have a significant long-term perception level for ten persuasive design characteristics. Further interview research was performed to investigate the participant's long-term perceptions on those characteristics for the purpose of identifying the durative persuasions. The results indicated that a long-term durative effectiveness can be observed and healthcare-related apps designed with those characteristics could have durative effectiveness. This study may contribute to the improvement of future mobile application designs in user experience and durative persuasion, as well as bringing future benefits for both mobile application developers and users.

• PNF and Movement
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.365-373
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• 2020

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how healthcare is delivered worldwide and has affected the environment of the healthcare. Physical therapy in traditional healthcare systems can be difficult in unusual circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Tele-physical therapy, defined as "the delivery of the physical therapy at a distance using electronic information and telecommunication technologies," will be a solution for this healthcare crisis. Thus, in this study, we proposed a mobile application for tele-physical therapy. Methods: This study used the Chrome Browser version 83.0.4 based on the Windows 10 64Bit operating system to use the App Inventor. To operate the mobile application, we used the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. The design of the mobile application was based on the review of a system used in the physical therapy department. Results: The graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile application was displayed on three screens: selecting a painful joint (1st screen of the GUI); selecting a painful movement of the joint (2nd screen of the GUI); a self-manual therapy method and movie (3rd screen of the GUI). The proposed mobile application showed the stable repeatability of the self-manual therapy movie. Conclusion: The results of this study demonstrated that the proposed mobile application using the App Inventor for android will be able to create easy to use and reliable tele-physical therapy.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.15-40
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• 2020

Due to the explosive growth of mobile application services, categorizing mobile application services is in need in practice from both customers' and developers' perspectives. Despite the fact, however, there have been limited studies regarding systematic categorization of mobile application services. In response, this study proposed a method for categorizing mobile application services, and suggested a service taxonomy based on the network clustering results. Total of 1,607 mobile healthcare services are collected through the Google Play store. The network analysis is conducted based on the similarity of descriptions in each application service. Modularity detection analysis is conducted to detects communities in the network, and service taxonomy is derived based on each cluster. This study is expected to provide a systematic approach to the service categorization, which is helpful to both customers who want to navigate mobile application service in a systematic manner and developers who desire to analyze the trend of mobile application services.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.72-81
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• 2017

The developments in mobile technology and the increase in the production of smartphones have led to the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Moreover, the number of mobile healthcare apps is on the rise, and users are benefiting from using healthcare, exercise tracking, and body monitoring apps, as well as they have been searching for health information through mobile health apps. This paper evaluated the usability of a symptom checker application that provides information on diseases, treatment methods, and related hospitals through self-diagnosis of symptoms. Symptom checkers are currently being developed, and are widely used overseas. This paper sought to evaluate the usability of a symptom checker app, and suggested ways to introduce enhancements.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.91-98
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• 2019

The research focused on plastic surgery clinics in Seoul, which recently responded to foreign patients who wanted to get plastic surgery, to recognize the need for the use of mobile healthcare applications to promote medical tourism and to see the expected effects in the future. For the analysis of data, SPSS 21.0 was used. Based on personal characteristics and medical institution characteristics, the future expected effects of using mobile healthcare applications were analyzed to find ways to help vitalize medical tourism. The result showed that the more mobile applications they wants to use in the future and the higher the number of foreign patients of the medical institutions, the more positive the expectation on the use of mobile healthcare application in the future. Also, the higher evaluation on the need for mobile healthcare application, the more helpful in vitalizing the medical tourism in the future, and the higher the positive awareness. I hope that this research will provide an IT foundation for the and expansion of mobile service app on demand analysis and service utilization of medical workers in order to promote medical tourism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10d
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• pp.488-493
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• 2007

헬스케어 응용서비스를 위란 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 노드들은 주로 사람 또는 이동성을 가진 사물이며, 이들간의 상호작용을 통한 헬스케어 응용서비스를 지원하기 위해서는 노드의 동적 기능변경, 동적 자기구성, 에너지 효율성을 고려하여 개발되어야 한다. 이러한 요구사항들은 노드 상에 해당 기능을 수행하는 에이전트를 두어 대상의 이동에 따른 에이전트 전이를 통해 동적 기능변경을 수행 및 처리하고, 이동성을 지원하는 계층적 클러스터링 알고리즘을 적용하여 노드의 이동에 따른 동적 자기구성, 제한된 에너지의 효율성 등을 해결할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 노드간 에이전트 전이를 통해 동적 기능 변경을 보장하는 Agilla모델 기반 Healthcare Mobility Agent Middleware를 설계하고, 정보 전달의 효율성과 노드의 이동성을 보장하기 위해 LEACH 프로토콜 기반 LEACH_Mobile 프로토콜을 제안한다. 또한 여기서 제안하는 LEACH_Mobile 프로토콜과 Healthcare Mobility Agent Middleware를 연동하기 위한 인터페이스와 LEACH_Mobile 프로토콜을 수행하기 위한 라우팅 모듈을 설계하였다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.241-248
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• 2012

Recently healthcare industry such as pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare service technology is growing significantly. Mobile healthcare has attracted big attention due to IT convergence technology. Paradigm of healthcare has been changed from the 1st generation(communicable disease prevention) and the 2nd generation(treatment of disease due to extended life expectancy) to the 3rd generation(extended life expectancy due to prevention and control). In our study, we suggest the 3rd generation mobile healthcare system using Bluetooth based wearable ECG monitoring system and smart phone technology. The mobile healthcare system consists of wearable shirts with Bluetooth communication module, ECG sensor, battery, and mobile phone. The ECG data is obtained by a miniaturized sensor and the data is transferred to a mobile phone using Bluetooth communication. Then, user can monitor his/her own ECG signal on an application using Android in mobile phone. The Bluetooth communication device is used due to highly reliable data transmission property and the Bluetooth chip is embedded in every mobile phone. The wearable shirts with chest belt of Bluetooth ECG module is designed with a focus on convenience in the daily life of a wearer. The ECG signal evaluation software in Android based mobile phone is developed for the health check and the ECG signal variation is tested according to the activities of the wearer such as walking, climbing stairs, stand up and sit down, and so on.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.15-17
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• 2018

Fast response to livestock disease and raising the reproductive success rate contribute to the improvement of farm productivity and profit margins. Due to the decrease in farm workforce and aging population, efficient livestock healthcare and breeding management are needed. In this study, we developed a mobile application for livestock healthcare and breeding management based on the collected body temperature data by IoT sensors. In case of livestock health problem, users are notified immediately via a mobile application warning message. It also provides users with a livestock breeding date function, allowing them to respond without missing the breeding season.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.57-70
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• 2017

Researchers and industry managers highlight the emergence of mobile healthcare market given the rapid development of IT and the expansion of average life expectancy. Medical institutions, such as university hospitals, are aiming to achieve convenience and effectiveness of treatment by providing patient education through a mobile device. This study examines a case related to the development and usage of a mobile application based on Lean Canvas, namely, the Smart Explanation Service released by Samsung Medical Center. This application comprehensively analyzes the usage status of mobile application-based patient education and its application in clinical settings. This study also examines the level of satisfaction of patients and medical workers toward this application. The result of this study is expected to provide meaningful implication to medical institutions and related industries and enable them to create and offer prepare mobile healthcare services.