SMSpress: An SMS Research Management System

Rushil Khurana; Yi Han; Rosa Arriaga

6th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services

Research Article

SMSpress: An SMS Research Management System

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791,
    author={Rushil Khurana and Yi Han and Rosa Arriaga},
    title={SMSpress: An SMS Research Management System},
    proceedings={6th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={MOBICASE},
    year={2014},
    month={11},
    keywords={ubicomp research studies web-based sms},
    doi={10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791}
}

Rushil Khurana
Yi Han
Rosa Arriaga
Year: 2014
SMSpress: An SMS Research Management System
MOBICASE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791

Rushil Khurana¹^,*, Yi Han¹, Rosa Arriaga¹

1: Georgia Institute of Technology

*Contact email: rushil.khurana@gatech.edu

Abstract

Text messaging is a functionality that has been widely adopted in user studies due to its presence in smart phones and feature phones alike. However the ability to use cell phones for data collection has been limited to researchers that have programming abilities. We present SMSpress, a web-based SMS management system that allows non-technical users to configure SMS studies. Researchers can schedule text messages for delivery to participants via a web-interface. We establish the requirements for such a system, and present the results from two case studies. One is a four month mhealth deployment with cardiac patients; the other is a usability evaluation of a study to help parents keep track of their child's development.

Keywords: ubicomp research studies web-based sms

Published: 2014-11-28
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobicase.2014.257791