MQOL: Mobile quality of life lab: From behavior change to QOL

TY - GEN

T1 - MQOL

T2 - 2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018

AU - Manea, Vlad

AU - Wac, Katarzyna

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Nowadays, the app stores host a variety of mobile health solutions. Smartphone users can choose from tens of thousands of applications, designed to prevent or manage certain diseases, or induce behavior change to improve health and life quality in general. However, the value of most applications remains unclear, as they stop short from documenting adherence to medical evidence. We review the fundamental mobile health challenges and propose Mobile Quality of Life Lab (mQoL), a mobile health platform which addresses the identified challenges and leverages recent developments to facilitate the deployment of much-needed longitudinal, multidimensional, evidence-based studies that are minimally obtrusive for the participants, yet provide high value in terms of the collected datasets, as well as potential for behavior change towards improving Quality of Life.

AB - Nowadays, the app stores host a variety of mobile health solutions. Smartphone users can choose from tens of thousands of applications, designed to prevent or manage certain diseases, or induce behavior change to improve health and life quality in general. However, the value of most applications remains unclear, as they stop short from documenting adherence to medical evidence. We review the fundamental mobile health challenges and propose Mobile Quality of Life Lab (mQoL), a mobile health platform which addresses the identified challenges and leverages recent developments to facilitate the deployment of much-needed longitudinal, multidimensional, evidence-based studies that are minimally obtrusive for the participants, yet provide high value in terms of the collected datasets, as well as potential for behavior change towards improving Quality of Life.

KW - Behavioral Marker

KW - Longitudinal Data

KW - Mobile Application

KW - Quality of Life

KW - Self-Assessment

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058344413&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3267305.3267549

DO - 10.1145/3267305.3267549

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85058344413

SP - 642

EP - 647

BT - UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 8 October 2018 through 12 October 2018

ER -