@article { ISI:000339111400013, title = {Mobile PHRs Compliance with Android and iOS Usability Guidelines}, journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS}, volume = {38}, number = {8}, year = {2014}, month = {AUG}, abstract = {Mobile Personal Health Records (PHRs) have achieved a particularly strong market share since the appearance of more powerful mobile devices and popular worldwide mobile application markets such as Apple{\textquoteright}s App Store and Android{\textquoteright}s Google Play. However, Android and Apple have a set of recommendations on design and usability targeted towards developers who wish to publish apps in their stores: Android Design Guidelines and iOS Human Interface Guidelines. This paper aims to evaluate compliance with these guidelines by assessing the usability recommendations of a set of 24 selected mobile PHR applications. An analysis process based on a well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was used. The results show that the 24 mobile PHR applications studied are not suitably structured. 46 \% of these applications do not use any of the recommended patterns, using instead lists or springboards, which are deprecated patterns for top-level menus. 70 \% of the PHRs require a registration to be able to test the application when these interactions should be delayed. Our study will help both PHR users to select user-friendly mobile PHRs and PHR providers and developers to identify the good usability practices implemented by the applications with the highest scores.}, issn = {0148-5598}, doi = {10.1007/s10916-014-0081-6}, author = {Cruz Zapata, Belen and Hernandez Ninirola, Antonio and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio} }