Background: A growing number of mobile health (mHealth) technology–based apps are being developed for personal lifestyle and medical health care support, of which several apps are related to pregnancy. Evidence on usability and effectiveness is limited but crucial for successful implementation. Objective: …

BACKGROUND: The number of mobile apps that support smoking cessation is growing, indicating the potential of the mobile phone as a means to support cessation. Knowledge about the potential end users for cessation apps results in suggestions to target potential user groups in a dissemination strategy, …

Study about voluntary use of mobile apps to promote behaviour change presented at the Etmaal voor de Communicatiewetenschap

In opdracht van stichting Travers Welzijn en ontwerpstudio Beeldprikkels is er een spelconcept ontwikkeld voor een interactieve mobiele applicatie om buitenspelen onder kinderen van 9-12 jaar uit Zwolle-Zuid te stimuleren. In stadsdeel Zwolle-Zuid wordt er door kinderen namelijk weinig buiten gespeeld, …

Background: The importance of the preconception period and preconception care (PCC) are broadly acknowledged and the potential benefits regarding health promotion have been studied extensively. PCC provides the opportunity to identify, prevent, and treat modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors to optimize …

Individual and unorganized sports with a health-related focus, such as recreational running, have grown extensively in the last decade. Consistent with this development, there has been an exponential increase in the availability and use of electronic monitoring devices such as smartphone applications …

Which factors are important for effectiveness of sport- and health-related apps? Results of focus groups with experts. Dallinga, J, van der Werf, J , Janssen, M, Vos, S, Deutekom-Baart de la Faille, M. A huge amount of sport- and health-related smartphone applications (apps) is available in the app stores …

In this presentation we presented the results of expert meetings. The aim was to identify which features in sport- and health-related apps contribute to effectiveness of apps. A nominal group technique was used.

The booming market of mobile applications has also given birth to an entirely different market, namely that of mobile app discovery. Companies try to respond to those customers who have a hard time finding useful ones between the millions of apps in the app stores. Playground, a marketing agency located …

Happy Online is een bedrijf dat onder andere websites, webshops en apps ontwikkelt. Het is onderdeel van de Happy Horizon groep die gevestigd is in Eindhoven. Er zijn meerdere locaties en Happy Online merkt dat de communicatie niet altijd goed verloopt. Om deze reden is er vanuit Happy Online de opdracht …