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Health Telescope: System Design for Longitudinal Data Collection Using Mobile Applications

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This paper describes the process of developing the technical infrastructure of the Health Telescope: an interventional panel study designed to measure the long term effects of eHealth usage. We describe the design and implementation of both the Health Telescope application—an Android application that allows us to interact with participants and obtain measurements—and the researcher authoring client—a web-based application that allows us to flexibly submit experience sampling tasks to participants. This paper serves as a blueprint for those wanting to study long-term behavioral change in the wild. The paper furthermore describes a pilot study that was conducted to evaluate the research software. We conclude with design guidelines aimed at those aiming to undertake a similar endeavor that are vital when developing similar software; this paper aims to highlight both the importance and challenges of measuring the effects of eHealth applications longitudinally.

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  1. Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

    Bas Willemse & Maurits Kaptein

  2. Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Bas Willemse & Maurits Kaptein

  3. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Bas Willemse, Maurits Kaptein & Nikolaos Batalas

  4. RoboticBit, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Nikolaos Batalas

  5. CZ Zorgverzekeraars, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Fleur Hasaart

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

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  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Michael J. O'Grady

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Gabriele Civitarese

  4. Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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Willemse, B., Kaptein, M., Batalas, N., Hasaart, F. (2021). Health Telescope: System Design for Longitudinal Data Collection Using Mobile Applications. In: Ye, J., O'Grady, M.J., Civitarese, G., Yordanova, K. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70569-5_10

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