Fitness apps are easy to download and can help motivate people to start workout routines, but that may not be enough to sustain those routines in the long run. However, Penn State researchers suggest there may be ways to tweak those apps to inspire a deeper commitment to a fitness routine and help users hit their fitness goals.
App developers should be open and obvious when they're asking users for private information, such as location data. Users' trust and engagement may hinge on perceptions about how the app uses their data and whether it seeks user input before delivering personalized services.
Entrepreneurship and cross-college collaboration was a winning combination for students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) who took part in the mHealth Challenge during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November.
Students learn to code at HackPSU
With about 95 million single adults in the United States, the online matchmaking industry is booming. Communication technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Skype have created new ways to find and date potential partners. Despite all the digital bells and whistles, it still all comes down to a face-to-face encounter. Is dating fundamentally any different for young adults today than in our parents' and grandparents' days?
The economy may be struggling, but these days Cupid has found some profitable new niches. With about 95 million single adults in the United States, the online matchmaking industry is booming, to the tune of a billion dollars in revenue projected for 2012.
"Student Showcase: How Tablets and Apps Transformed My College Internship" will be presented from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday Nov. 7, in the Foster Auditorium (Room 102) Paterno Library. The event is being sponsored by the Penn State iPad User Group and the University Libraries. The evening will include a technology "petting zoo," so attendees can see the devices and apps more closely. The presentation will also be streamed live and archived at http://tinyurl.com/psustudentshowcase
Publicly available cell-phone applications from application markets are releasing consumers' private information to online advertisers, according to a joint study by Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University. Researchers at the participating institutions have developed a realtime monitoring service called TaintDroid that precisely analyzes how private information is obtained and released by applications "downloaded" to consumer phones. TaintDroid is an extension to the Android mobile-phone platform that tracks the flow of sensitive data through third-party applications.
