Mobile eLearning Platform for Interactive Patient Education

Author

Finkelstein, Joseph ; Wood, Jeffrey

Author_Institution

Chronic Disease Inf. Program, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

fYear

2009

fDate

1-7 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

27

Abstract

We developed an interactive patient learning system for use on mobile phones to inform an asthma patient about this chronic condition and enforce knowledge retention by questioning the user. The system uses a mobile phone´s Internet connection to retrieve information from a database and download recorded audio files corresponding to asthma information screens. The mobile application was successfully developed, implemented, and tested on the Motorola i730 mobile phone with Nextel as a service provider. The application can be utilized as a universal mobile eLearning platform for interactive patient education.

Keywords

Internet; biomedical education; computer aided instruction; medical computing; medical information systems; mobile computing; mobile radio; patient treatment; Electronic patient information systems; asthma patient; database information retrieval; interactive patient education; interactive patient learning system; knowledge retention; mobile elearning platform; mobile phone; mobile phone Internet connection; patient treatment; recorded audio file; Audio databases; Diseases; Electronic learning; File servers; Internet; Java; Learning systems; Mobile handsets; Testing; Web server; cell phones; computer-assisted instruction; health education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning, 2009. ELML '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3361-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3528-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eLmL.2009.24

Filename

4782598