Development of a mobile platform for the self-screening of human pathologiesDevelopment of a mobile platform for the self-screening of human pathologiesΑνάπτυξη λογισμικού για κινητή πλατφόρμα για τον προληπτικό αυτοέλεγχο παθήσεων Διπλωματική Εργασία Diploma Work 2016-04-202016en Nowadays mobile applications have become extremely popular since time spent on smart-phones exceeds computer usage. In terms of mobile application popularity, games and social networking are the most popular pastime, rating much higher than news and entertainment. As consumer's use of mobile devices has increased, so has the variety of applications being published. One of the most upcoming eld of mobile applications is the one concerning health, known as mHealth apps. Mobile applications can certainly help many people to take care of their health and wellness, a healthier lifestyle, and also gives access to valuable information whenever they require it. In this thesis, a mHealth application was developed using Java and Xml, which is a mobile platform for screening human eye pathologies. The application was implemented using the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and the ADT bundle (Android Development Tools). This particular application consists of a set of ophthalmological tests, a way to schedule a test in a given time and date, a SQLite database used for the data storage and some health and nutrition tips. The results, after the application was tested by a number of users, conrm the validity of the app, since people with eye deciencies presented low scores on to the respective tests.Διπλωματική εργασία http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών ΥπολογιστώνMargaris_Ioannis_Dip_2016.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2016-04-20application/pdf24.5 MBembargo Margaris Ioannis Μαργαρης Ιωαννης Balas Costas Μπαλας Κωστας Samoladas Vasilis Σαμολαδας Βασιλης Deligiannakis Antonios Δεληγιαννακης Αντωνιος Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης Technical University of Crete mHealth application