出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Data sharing between mobile apps that are co-located in a smartphone may lead to synergisticbenefits to the user especially in the health-care domain. Mobile apps that monitor and controluser behavior can interact to engage the user into a healthy schedule over a long term. In thecurrent app development paradigm, apps are being developed individually and agnostic of eachother. To enable interaction between apps in secure manner, collaboration between developersis needed, which can be problematic on many levels. Current approaches to app integrationrequire large code modifications to reap the benefits of shared data such as requiringdevelopers to provide APIs or ensuring security through elaborate measures. In order topromote app interaction, this paper proposes a non-invasive secure interface for data sharingbetween mobile apps. A separate app, called the Health-Dev data manager, acts as a registry toallow apps to register database tables to be shared. Two health monitoring apps are developedto evaluate the sharing framework and different methods of data integration between apps. Thehealth monitoring apps have shown non-invasive solutions can provide data sharingfunctionality without large code modifications and collaboration between developers.
关键词：Health apps; Data sharing; Mobile computing; Smart phone; Application Programming;Interface; Data security; Data Management.
