Title :
Introducing a Blackberry eLearning Platform for Interactive Hypertension Education
Author :
Finkelstein, Joseph ; Wood, Jeffrey ; Cha, Eunme
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Med., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
We developed an interactive patient learning system for use on Blackberry devices to inform hypertension subjects about their chronic condition and enforce knowledge retention by questioning the user. The system uses the Blackberry´s internet connection to retrieve hypertension information from a database and plays recorded audio files corresponding to hypertension information messages. The application was successfully developed, implemented, and tested on the BlackBerry 7100i smartphone with Nextel as a service provider. The application can be utilized as a universal mobile eLearning platform for interactive patient education.
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical education; computer aided instruction; information retrieval; interactive systems; mobile computing; mobile handsets; BlackBerry 7100i smartphone; Internet connection; Nextel; blackberry eLearning platform; information retrieval; interactive hypertension education; interactive patient education; interactive patient learning system; knowledge retention; recorded audio files; Databases; Electronic learning; Handheld computers; Hypertension; Internet; Java; Learning systems; Mobile handsets; Testing; Web server; health information; hypertension; mobile health;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile, Hybrid, and On-Line Learning, 2010. ELML '10. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Saint Maarten
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5718-2
DOI :
10.1109/eLmL.2010.36
