App development in a sports science setting: A systematic review and lessons learned from an exemplary setting to generate recommendations for the app development process.

ABSTRACT: The digital health sector is rapidly growing. With only 4% of publishers out of academic settings, it is under-represented in app development. The objective of this study is to assess the current state of app development with a systematic review and a survey within an exemplary academic setting along the following research questions: (Q1) Are software engineering principles sufficiently known in the sports science app development context? (Q2) Is the role of sports scientists in the context of app development sufficiently understood? The systematic review was conducted by two independent reviewers within databases Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore. The PICO schema was used to identify the search term. We subtracted information about five main topics: development process, func

SUBMITTER: Barisch-Fritz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9845595 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature