Personalization of Mobile Health Applications for Remote Health Monitoring

Abstract. Mobile technologies have significantly developed in the last two decades. These technologies are now commonly utilized in many mobile applications, especially on health. Remote health monitoring including wearable sensors and various health applications has attracted the attention of communication and health sectors reducing the cost of patient monitoring and improving the quality of treatment in hospitals or at home during the period of convalescence, thus increasing patients' quality of life. In addition, behavior change support features and persuasion strategies are integrated into mobile health applications to provide more efficient healthcare for patients. In this paper, remote health monitoring is explored together with behavior change support features and persuasion strategies used in mobile health applications