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

fYear

2010

fDate

10-16 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

81

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eLmL.2010.36

Filename

5430007