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Thanks for sharing your opinion. It’s crucial to maintain a patient-centered, empathetic perspective, even when medical professionals are overwhelmed with their tasks. Instead of rescheduling the patient’s appointment with one click without notice, one call to explain the reasons for the change would be more appropriate and respectful.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that advance notification for appointment changes should be a required protocol.

Thank you for sharing your discussion. I haven’t considered such an analysis by comparing travelers and non-travelers to provide insights for the imposition of stricter travel restrictions. As for me, since disease surveillance needs to be timely, I would suggest health screening monitoring, or requesting health declaration forms at points of…[Read more]

What role does privacy play in user evaluations?

Not all users who rated the privacy aspects of the apps were satisfied with them. The majority of users expressed concerns about their privacy. It includes

– Excessive permission requests by software to function
– Concerns of data leakage and personal information security, such as unwanted SMS…[Read more]

It’s interesting to see that night work/life is still functioning (very little), although the night-time curfew led to a significantly decreased RoG value. When “curfew” is mentioned, I thought it’s unnecessarily serious because I am familiar only to “military martial law curfew”. I didn’t realize other kinds of curfew exists, e.g., public health curfew.

How did government restrictions affect mobility patterns?

The government restrictions include the closure of the friendship bridge, provincial entry and exit restrictions, with the establishment of checkpoints on main roads and a nationwide curfew.

It was introduced during Interval 4: 4 April 2020 to 3 May 2020 (30 days), the period of the most…[Read more]

The major barrier is a usability or experience issue, as you mentioned. If the app aims to be targeted at different kinds of audiences, it should have been designed with the principles of inclusive design, most importantly, age-friendly design.

Yes, I agree with it unless emails are not as excessive as spam or marketing emails. Otherwise, we would pay attention to it.

For me, it does not make sense if apps affect vaccination uptake rates because those apps are made to support the workflow of vaccination, such as digital records. Even if those apps also include a public health education feature, it’s public health education that increases the uptake, not necessarily the apps.

For me, it’s a trick to say that it has a positive impact from 4 studies, while 9 studies assess it, because 5 studies are unknown.

It’s interesting to see that the article mentions assumptions regarding older adults for the lower response rate. Despite these assumptions, as a young adult, I would not even try to waste my time on submitting a survey via the app.

What factors influenced participant engagement in the study?

According to the paper, engagement from the web-based survey is higher than that from the mobile app. The platform is a major factor influencing the rate of engagement. In detail, responding to the survey from the app involves a series of steps such as downloading, account registration,…[Read more]

How did apps affect vaccination uptake rates?

9 of the 28 studies assess how apps affect vaccination uptake rates. Only 4 studies reported a significant improvement in vaccination coverage.

Upon checking the apps from those 4 studies, they deal with immunization-related tasks such as immunization records associated with health workers and…[Read more]

My first reaction to using the virtual space is that it’s something gamers would enjoy doing because it’s not different from a gaming environment. In sharing pictures or presenting in a shared virtual space, normally, we assume that sharing in a classroom or discussion board would draw more attention than virtual space because we have physical…[Read more]

Your discussion makes me wonder how sensors can get actual values instead of independent values. In your case, temperature values are not immediately responsive to the environment but are being settled with heat affected on board (itself).
Your observation about the interval is very insightful. I didn’t realize that because the time value comes…[Read more]

I utilize the extra screen space for touch/click interaction, where a pointer moves with my head on the VR screen (phone screen). So, to select an item, you can tap anywhere on the extra screen space. To navigate back, I rotate 90 degrees as described in the help tutorial on the Google Cardboard app.

I tried watching VR videos on YouTube and VR apps such as VR Moon and VR Space. Honestly, I found it very hard to enjoy the experience. The stereoscopic vision was uncomfortable. Immediately after putting it on, I got motion sickness. I also noticed that my right and left eyes were trying to calibrate and not working together for some time. I…[Read more]

Visualization & Experimentation

While the aircon is on, the temperature and humidity remain the same.

After turning it off and opening all windows, the humidity climbed up while the temperature increased gradually.

Then, I tried to test it with all windows closed while the aircon was still off. The result shows that the temperature and…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing a very insightful article. It is a comprehensive framework for IoT from all dimensions. Although the article does not explicitly mention the details of specific technical, logistical, or ethical challenges, it emphasizes the importance of 100% correct data transmission, identifying faulty sensors, the privacy of patients, and…[Read more]

In my opinion, if we have to reproduce the implementation based on the article, the challenge will be, as the paper discussed, the difficulty in training deep ensemble models, which takes enormous computing costs (p. 3, 2022).