Title :
Mobile eLearning Platform for Interactive Patient Education
Author :
Finkelstein, Joseph ; Wood, Jeffrey
Author_Institution :
Chronic Disease Inf. Program, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
Abstract :
We developed an interactive patient learning system for use on mobile phones to inform an asthma patient about this chronic condition and enforce knowledge retention by questioning the user. The system uses a mobile phone´s Internet connection to retrieve information from a database and download recorded audio files corresponding to asthma information screens. The mobile application was successfully developed, implemented, and tested on the Motorola i730 mobile phone 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; medical computing; medical information systems; mobile computing; mobile radio; patient treatment; Electronic patient information systems; asthma patient; database information retrieval; interactive patient education; interactive patient learning system; knowledge retention; mobile elearning platform; mobile phone; mobile phone Internet connection; patient treatment; recorded audio file; Audio databases; Diseases; Electronic learning; File servers; Internet; Java; Learning systems; Mobile handsets; Testing; Web server; cell phones; computer-assisted instruction; health education;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning, 2009. ELML '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3361-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3528-9
DOI :
10.1109/eLmL.2009.24
