Information Anywhere

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INFORMATION ANYWHERE

Mobile Technology, Libraries and Health

Agenda

• Introduction• The Modern Mobile/Smartphone Landscape• Development and Design Part I: Mobile Site Generator

• Health/Medicine in the Mobile/Smartphone Landscape

• Development and Design Part II: Native App Generator

• QR Codes• Augmented Reality• Conclusion

Mobile is everywhere

Photo by Flickr user haerath

More people today have access to a mobile phone than to clean water or the electrical grid.~http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

Mobile Devices

• Apple iPhone, iPod Touch• Droid• Blackberry Curve and Storm• HTC• Palm• Kindle• iPad• Etc.• What do you have?

mHealth

• The practice of medicine and public health, supported by mobile devices, such as smart phones and wireless connectivity, for health services and information.

• The use of mobile devices to support health related monitoring and self-help activities.

“…smartphones are not miniature PCs but ‘a whole ecosystem with its own set of rules’”

Alexandre Mars, "Importing Mobile Marketing Tools," Brandweek, vol. 51, no. 7 (2010), p. 17.

STATISTICSaka “Preaching to the Choir”

Mobile Phone Adoption Worldwide

• Subscriber base > 5 billion• China: 57 % of population• India: 48 % of population• United States: 89 % of population

“Five billion phones means there are more than three times as many phones as personal computers”

Ben Wood Analyst, CCS Insighthttp://www.ccsinsight.com/

How do people feel about their phones?

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones.aspx

Demographics in general

How are people using their mobile phones?

95% send or receive text messages

93% use their phone to take pictures

81% send photos or videos to others

65% access the internet on their mobile device

64% play music on their phones

60% use their phones to play games or record a video

52% have used their phone to send or receive email

48% have accessed a social networking site on their phone by text message

46% use instant messaging on their mobile device

40% have watched a video on their phone

33% have posted a photo or video online from their phone

21% have used a status update service such as Twitter from their phone

20% have purchased something using their mobile phone

19% have made a charitable donation by text message

Pew Internet, Mobile Access 2010, July 7, 2010

Statistics Overload

15% of all adults who use a cell phone to look for health information

How are YOU using mobile technologies?

How are the doctors or other health professionals using mobile technologies?

How are your patrons using mobile technologies?

iOS devices• iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch• Available through AT&T, Verizon, Sprint• Debuted in 2007• Apps developed in Objective C• More than 475,000 apps (150K for iPad)

Android devices• Too many to list• Available on all major carriers• Debuted in 2008• Apps developed in Java• More than 300,000 apps

Blackberry & Microsoft Devices• BB

• Too many to list• Available on all major

carriers• Debuted in ~1996• More modern devices: 2005• About 10,000 apps

• Microsoft – Windows Phone• Debuted in 2010• Comes with MS Office• 30,000 apps (as of Aug. 2011)• Marketplace: http://

www.windowsphone.com/en-US/marketplace

Which platform to support?Market share – devices sold

(July 2010)

Mobile web use(August 2010)

BlackBerry44%

Android19%

iPhone26%

Other11%

BlackBerry9%

Android25%

iPhone56%

Other10%

Anon. 2010. August 2010 Mobile OS Share. Quantcast Blog. September 3. http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/09/august-2010-mobile-os-share.html.

Anon. 2010. comScore Reports July 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share -- RESTON, Va., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ --. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-reports-july-2010-us-mobile-subscriber-market-share-102969094.html.

Tablets

Samsung Galaxy

Apple iPad

HP TouchPad

Apps Available on Tablets

DEVELOPING AND DESIGNING FOR MOBILE PART IWeb App Development

Pre Development• Survey! Who’s your audience? What mobile devices are they using? How are they using them?

• Are you going to make an app or a webapp?

App• Java, Objective C, JQuery

Mobile• Single platform• Full hardware access

(GPS, camera, accelerometer, etc.)

• Can be used offline• Tricky to get usage

statistics• Make new version for

each platform

Webapp• HTML, CSS, Javascript• Mutli-platform (with

caveats)• Limited hardware access

(GPS?)• Requires Internet

connection (with caveats)

• Standard webstats (with caveats)

Dedicated Mobile Website vs Native App

• HTML5• Allow visitors to access the full site• Allow visitors to report bugs• Keep it simple – don’t cram the entire full-browser site into a mobile site

Designing for the Mobile Web• Prioritize features and content

• Sacrifice!

• Reduce levels of hierarchy for content• Flatten the structure of your site so visitors don’t get lost

• Data entry is awkward (don’t make me type too much)• Encourage selection rather than typing

• Keep forms to a minimum• Download speeds can be much slower than on desktops• Minimize the use of elements that require more processing time

Work with what you have• Modifying the ‘meta name’ in the HTML of the website

• Adjust text sizehtml { -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; /* Automatically adjusted for Safari on iPhone. */ -ms-text-size-adjust: auto; }

Work with what you have• Media Queries aka Adaptive Layout<link rel="stylesheet" href="…" media="print" />

Resources to Help with Mobile Web Development• HTML5• How to Build a Mobile Website, http://

www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/03/how-to-build-a-mobile-website/

• Mobile Design, http://mobithinking.com/mobile-user-design

Some Companies*• Mobify, http://mobify.me/• MoFuse, http://www.mofuse.com/• SproutCore, http://www.sproutcore.com/ (this one is

open source)

*More than willing to take your money

Handheld-Friendly Library Websites

UIC Mobile Site Walkthrough

http://m.lib.uic.edu

Sample Pages

UpToDate and IEEE Xplore

Using Mobile Site Generators

www.hiddenpeanuts.com/msg

Left: Mobile Site Generator created by Chad Haefele (NCState), among others we will look at…

MOBILE DEVICES AND HEALTH

The Times, They are a Changin’

• Glucometer– Blood sugar

• Bathroom Scale– Weight– Water loss/gain

• Sphygmomanometer– Blood pressure– Pulse

NETWORK

• Smart Band-Aids - Chemistry

• Digestible RFID Pills

Physician Adoption• # of physicians who own smartphones will increase from 64% in 2009 to 81% by 2012

• No longer using it as a reference device but as a computer replacement

• 1 in 5 plan to buy an iPad• How can physicians use mobile technology… to communicate with their patients? (And are they doing it?)

Patient Communication and Disease Management

• Appointment reminders

• Medication reminders

• Patient education• Care communication

• Disease management• Patients monitor and report their health data

• Interactive applications

Access to Resources• Formularies• Guidelines• Decision support• Medical Calculators

Point-of-Care Documentation

• Patient History Access• Patient Info Capture• Transmission of Patient Info

Education Programs• Teaching clinicians• Patient Education

Administration & Financials

• Mobile clinical assistants

• Self check-in• Asset tracking• Scheduling• Bed management• Charge capture• Eligibility info• Billing

Ambulance/EMS• Advance triage• Patient record• Emergency self-care

• First aid information

Public Health• Track diseases• Mapping applications

• Dissemination of information re: outbreaks

• Ex. NYC CondomFinder

Pharma/Clinical Trials

• Patient feedback systems

• Automatic, scheduled and ad hoc information transmission

• Rely on instrument rather than patient for routine data collection

Body Area Network (BAN)

• Mobile wearable or implanted sensors

• Monitors chronic disease

• Transmits data in real time

• May automatically treat patients (insulin)

• Still in primitive stage of development

• Big issue: security

www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

mHealth – NLM Mobile Applications

Personal Health & Wellness Apps

• Calorie Counters• Lose It!• MyFitnessPal

• Medication Compliance• Medsy• Med Helper

• Monitoring and Record Keeping• Instant Heart Rate • QuantiaCare for Diabetes• AsthmaMD

• Symptom Checker• iTriage• MedlinePlus (website)

• Companies• Walgreens• Gazelle (Quest Diagnostics)

From: GetMobilized Course, South Central MLA

Clinical Apps

• Calculators• Calculate by QxMD• MedCalc

• Current Updates• MedPage Today• Public Health News

(Harvard)

• Diagnosis & Protocol Reference• Diagnosaurus• ePSS

: Electronic Preventative Services Selector (AHRQ)

• Drug & Interaction Reference• Epocrates• Micromedix

• Patient Communication & Reference• MediBabble

• Multifunction• Medscape• Skyscape

Research & Library Apps

• Searching• PubMed Mobile Beta (website)

• PubMed OnTap

• Ready Reference• Eponyms• Medical Encyclopedia (Univ. Maryland Med Center)

• Plain-language Medical Dictionary (Taubman HSL)

• Anatomy• Netter’s Atlas• 3D Brain

• Vendor Apps• WorldCat• AccessMyLibrary (Gale)

• NEJM This Week• PLoS Medicine • PLoS One to Go

Productivity

• Note-taking/Lists• Evernote• Springpad

• Personal Finance• Mint.com• PageOnce

• Travel• PageOnce Travel• TripIt

• Reading• Kindle Reading App• Stanza

• Collaboration• DropBox

GoogleDocs

• Networking & Communication• Skype• Facebook• Twitter• Google+

Where Libraries Fit• What is your library doing?• What would you like to see your library do:

• For you?• For your patrons?

• M-Libraries• http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries• Lists libraries offering mobile interfaces or apps (including UIUC – mobile website and Indiana Search U - application)

• Vendors and Publishers offering mobile interfaces or apps

• Mobile Instruction, mobile tours of the library

DEVELOPING AND DESIGNING FOR MOBILE PART IINative App Development

Create an App or Website

QR CODES

QR Codes

Uses for QR Codes

Some, uh, Interesting Uses of QR Codes

Generating a QR Code• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

• For non-commercial use only• Can create a barcode that points to a URL, Text, Phone

Number or SMS

QR Codes Do Not Have to be Boring!• Add color or images• Soften hard edges with round corners• Give it a 3D effect

AUGMENTED REALITY

Example: Hallux Angles - Radiology

Watching Trends, Keeping Up

BibliographyBooks• Bednarz, Ann. The Networked World. Network World. 9 May 2011.• Fling, Brian. Mobile Design & Development: Practical Concepts and

Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2009. Print.

• Griffey, Jason. Mobile Technology and Libraries. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2010. Print.

Articles

• Aldrich, Alan W. "Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web" Educause. Vol 23, no. 2, p.

• Warren, Christina. "How to: Optimize Your Mobile Site Across Multiple Platforms" Mashable [accessed: July 15, 2010] link: http://mashable.com/2010/07/13/mobile-web-optimization/

BibliographyPresentations• Tessier, Claudia. The 12 mHealth Application Clusters. http://www.scribd.com/doc/27854061/The-12-mHealth-Application-Clusters

Web Links• Delicious Links, http://www.delicious.com/maxlibris/informationanywhere.class

Thank you!

Max Anderson, MLISNN/LM GMR

max@uic.edu312-996-2464