Wei Wang

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ChroniUXMag: A Preliminary Framework for mHealth App Adaptation in Chronic Disease Management

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Abstract

This paper introduces ChroniUXMag, a framework for designing adaptive health apps.

The framework helps designers think about different kinds of users living with chronic diseases.

It looks at factors such as health situation, attitude toward health, culture, support needs, involvement, and trust in health apps.

The goal is to help software teams design mobile health apps that better match real user differences.

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Submission

Requirements Engineering 2025 submitted 12 March 2025

🔍 Abstract

Mobile health (mHealth) applications are becoming increasingly popular for managing chronic diseases, driven by their increasing occurrence and the need for continuous monitoring. Nevertheless, development of good mHealth applications faces obstacles, including heterogeneity in usability and accessibility issues related to technology use. Adaptive user interfaces (AUIs) offer potential to help better meet the needs of chronic disease patients by personalizing their user experiences. Drawing on data from a comprehensive multi-method study, we analyze both qualitative and quantitative findings to explore how user-specific factors shape their preferences for adaptation design in mHealth applications. We identified key user dimensions influencing adaptation design in mHealth apps: health situation, health attitude, cultural differences, and level of dependency. With the wider adoption of mHealth applications, considering an accessible design is crucial to creating meaningful patient-centered interventions, and future research should further explore how these dimensions can enhance the design of mHealth interventions.

📌 Submission

Requirements Engineering 2025 submitted 12 March 2025

📝 Citation

Wei Wang, Devi Karolita, Hourieh Khalajzadeh, John Grundy, Anuradha Madugalla and Humphrey O. Obie. 2024. ChroniUXMag: A Preliminary Framework for mHealth App Adaptation in Chronic Disease Management. Requirements Engineering 2025 UPV