Πλοήγηση ανά Συγγραφέας "Strataki, Evangelia"

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    Wellness management and positive psychology app for smartphone platforms.
    (Τ.Ε.Ι. Κρήτης, Σχολή Τεχνολογικών Εφαρμογών (Σ.Τ.Εφ), ΠΜΣ Πληροφορική και Πολυμέσα, 2017-09-12) Strataki, Evangelia; Στρατάκη, Ευαγγελία
    This thesis describes the development of an Android application called “BeHappier”. The objective of the “BeHappier” app is to help individuals to improve their well-being and increase their life satisfaction. The “BeHappier” app is based on theoretical framework of Positive Psychology, a new branch in the field of Psychology. Interventions based on Positive Psychology are methods or intentional activities (Koszycki, Raab, Aldosary, & Bradwejn, 2010) that focus on teaching people new behaviours which they will integrate into their daily lives (Michael, Fredrickson, Cohn, & Fredrickson, 2010) in order to become aware of their virtues and their strengths and to enhance positive emotions such as gratitude, savouring, kindness and hope (Manual, Children, Suldo, & Michalowski, 2007). Several recent research finding have shown that the enhancement of these emotions produce benefits beyond well-being enhancement, such as improvement of physical health (Diener & Chan, 2011), reduce subclinical symptoms of depression and the risk of clinical depression (Michael et al., 2010). The “BeHappier” app consists of two (2) modes which are presented to the users as groups, which they are invited to select one of them. In the first mode of operation (Group 1), users are invited to complete a series of validated questionnaires in regular basis in order their happiness level to be measured. Additionally, they are asked to perform six (6) self-helping exercises/activities with the objective to decrease their stress and depression and increase their level of happiness and wellbeing. In the second mode of operation (Group2) users are invited to complete the same questionnaires at the same time limits as Group1, in order to estimate the baseline of their corresponding happiness level. In both modes, the application used vivid graphical representations for providing user-feedback of their level of happiness. The app also offers instructions and reminders to the users and the opportunity to share their experiences with others. The “Be Happier” app is a native android application developed in the Java programming language. The app follows the principles of material design and encompasses innovative components such as scrolling tabs, navigation drawers and floating action buttons (FAB) menus, providing a simple and usable navigation. It stores its data in Firebase, hosted in the cloud, which 6 is a real time database, developed for high quality applications, that automatically synchronizes with every connected client, thus achieving real time application performance. Usability and technical evaluation of the application was conducted after the completion of the development of the application. For a period of two months the app was used by smartphone users for finding bugs. New versions of the application was developed correcting all bugs identified. After this period, the evaluation of the application was conducted. Additionally, the power consumption of the application was measured for estimating the average power consumption of the application. The usability evaluation showed that the “BeHappier” is simple and usable application. The screens design is clear and uncluttered, there is consistency in workflow among tasks, the documentation for the tasks completion is well-integrated and reminders are presented on time and are well informative. According to the valuation scores users not only can use the application without extra help but they feel quite confident to complete tasks without making mistakes. Finally, measurements about the app power usage shows that it has low battery consumption.