Final Paper

The final paper for the course (for students taking the course for credit) is to design a health app for a particular health topic or organization. Following the template for the final paper are some app suggestions and final papers from last year.

Template:

Executive summary
Background
- Mobile health use
- Evidence-based guidelines for health topic
Needs assessment
- Populations app targets
- Four personas representing your target audiences and scenarios for each that include how they would find and use your app
Competitive analysis
- A survey of the available apps for this health topic noting any that are particularly well-reviewed or highly rated, their range of functionality, and noting if they comply with evidence-based guidelines
- The results of a competitive analysis of four or more apps, and an explanation of why you selected them to review
Description of app design (and justification for your design decisions). Explain how the app:
- Complies with evidence-based guidelines (if it doesn’t, why not?)
- Would be used successfully by your personas and why
- Improves on existing apps based on your search and competitive analysis
- Uses the capabilities of smartphones
Wireframes depicting a subset of the functionality
Evaluation plan
Development plan including cost and schedule estimates
Marketing plan
Limitations
References
About the author