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

fYear

2014

fDate

6-7 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

81

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE), 2014 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791

Filename

7026280