App Designs and Interactive Features to Increase mHealth Adoption: User Expectation Survey and Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the ubiquity of smartphones, there is little guidance for how to design mobile health apps to increase use. Specifically, knowing what features users expect, grab their attention, encourage use (via predicted use or through positive app evaluations), and signal beneficial action possibilities can guide and focus app development efforts.

Objective

We investigated what features users expect and how the design (prototypicality) impacts app adoption.

Methods

In a web-based survey, we elicited expectations, including presence and placement, for 12 app features. Thereafter, participants (n=462) viewed 2 health apps (high prototypicality similar to top downloaded apps vs low prototypicality similar to research interventions) and reported willingness to dow

SUBMITTER: Lazard AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8603164 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature