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Software Requirement Catalog on Acceptability, Usability, Internationalization and Sustainability for Contraception mPHRs

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Contraception Mobile Personal Health Records (mPHRs) are efficient mobile health applications (apps) to increase awareness about fertility and contraception and to allow women to access, track, manage, and share their health data with healthcare providers. This paper aims to develop a requirements catalog, according to standards, guidelines, and relevant literature to e-health technology and psychology. The requirements covered by this catalog are Acceptability, Usability, Sustainability, and Internationalization (i18n). This catalog can be very useful for developing, evaluating, and auditing contraceptive apps, as well as helping stakeholders and developers identify potential requirements for their mPHRs to improve them.

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This work was conducted within the research project PEER 7-246 supported by the US Agency for International Development. The authors would like to thank the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and USAID for their support. Moreover, this research has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Fund for Regional Development (ERDF) under project RTI2018-098309-B-C33.

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Kharbouch, M., Idri, A., Redman, L., Alami, H., Fernández-Alemán, J.L., Toval, A. (2020). Software Requirement Catalog on Acceptability, Usability, Internationalization and Sustainability for Contraception mPHRs. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_63

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