Born In Bradford Mobile Application

TL;DR

The paper presents a mobile app prototype for the Born In Bradford study, enabling mothers to interact with survey data and visualize their children's information to promote engagement and participation.

Contribution

It introduces a mobile application interface for data visualization and engagement in a longitudinal health study, enhancing participant involvement and data interaction.

Findings

App successfully engaged mothers in data visualization

Participants showed increased survey participation

The app facilitated comparison of children's data over time

Abstract

The Born In Bradford mobile application is an Android mobile application and a working prototype that enables interaction with a sample cohort of the Born in Bradford study. It provides an interface and visualization for several surveys participated in by mothers and their children. This data is stored in the Born In Bradford database. A subset of this data is provided for mothers and children. The mobile application provides a way to engage the mothers and promote their consistency in participating in subsequent surveys. It has been designed to allow selected mothers to participate in the visualization of their babies data. Samsung mobile phones have been provided with the application loaded on the phone to limit and control its use and access to data. Mothers login to interact with the data. This includes the ability to compare children data through infographics and graphs and comparing their children data with the average child. This comparison is done at different stages of the children ages as provided in the dataset.