Through lockdowns and other severe changes to daily life, almost everyone is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists and medical doctors are - among others - mainly interested in researching, monitoring, and improving physical and mental health of the general population. Mobile health apps (mHealth), and apps conducting ecological momentary assessments (EMA) respectively, can help in this context. However, developing such mobile applications poses many challenges like costly software development efforts, strict privacy rules, compliance with ethical guidelines, local laws, and regulations. In this paper, we present TrackYourHealth (TYH), a highly configurable, generic, and modular mobile data collection and EMA platform, which enabled us to develop and release two mobile multi-platform applications related to COVID-19 in just a few weeks. We present TYH and highlight specific challenges researchers and developers of similar apps may also face, especially when developing apps related to the medical field.
翻译：通过封锁和对日常生活的其他严重改变,几乎每个人都受到COVID-19大流行病的影响,科学家和医生主要关心研究、监测和改善普通民众的身心健康,移动保健应用软件(MH)和进行生态短暂评估的应用软件(EMA)可以在这方面有所帮助,然而,发展这种移动应用软件带来了许多挑战,如昂贵的软件开发工作、严格的隐私规则、遵守道德准则、地方法律和规章等。本文介绍“你的健康跟踪”(TYH),这是一个高度可配置、通用和模块化的移动数据收集和EMA平台,使我们能够在短短几个星期内开发和发布与COVID-19有关的两个移动多平台应用软件。我们介绍TYH,并强调类似应用软件的研究人员和开发者也可能面临具体的挑战,特别是在开发与医疗领域有关的应用时。
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