Title :
SMSpress: An SMS research management system
Author :
Khurana, Rushil ; Yi Han ; Arriaga, Rosa I.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Interactive Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Text messaging is a functionality that has been widely adopted in user studies due to its presence in smart phones and feature phones alike. However the ability to use cell phones for data collection has been limited to researchers that have programming abilities. We present SMSpress, a web-based SMS management system that allows non-technical users to configure SMS studies. Researchers can schedule text messages for delivery to participants via a web-interface. We establish the requirements for such a system, and present the results from two case studies. One is a four month mhealth deployment with cardiac patients; the other is a usability evaluation of a study to help parents keep track of their child´s development.
Keywords :
Internet; cellular radio; electronic messaging; health care; human computer interaction; smart phones; user interfaces; SMS research management system; SMS study configuration; SMSpress; Web interface; Web-based SMS management system; cardiac patients; cell phones; child development tracking; data collection; feature phones; mhealth deployment; parents; smart phones; text message delivery scheduling; text messaging; usability evaluation; Interviews; Robustness; Schedules; research studies; ubicomp; web-based SMS;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE), 2014 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
DOI :
10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791
