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Sustainable Software for Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 8108

Special Issue Editors

Dr. José Luis Fernández-Alemán

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Dept. of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, Spain
Interests: requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, software engineering applications, data mining, medical informatics, E-learning
Dr. Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea

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Department Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, ES-30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: software engineering; statistical analysis; data mining; medical informatics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Software for Health” is being organised in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, which is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal in the area of environmental health sciences and engineering. More information about the journal can be found on https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Software is everywhere. It is at the core of organizations of all types and sizes: transport, banking, communications, etc. In particular, the software is present in a wide variety of devices and systems in the health field. Given the enormous criticality of this domain, it is necessary to apply software engineering methods, techniques, and tools to develop software products for health that meet the highest quality standards in the industry.

Our planet is vulnerable and its resources are limited. For this reason, it is of paramount importance to follow the principles of sustainable development to guarantee the future of new generations. This necessarily includes software systems, given their ubiquity and impact on the environment, especially in relation to electricity consumption. This can be addressed from two perspectives: (i) make the process of software development more sustainable (i.e., sustainability in software) and (ii) have a positive impact on sustainability through the software itself (i.e., sustainability by software).

Nowadays, we have to move forward in aligning the two ideas presented above. Health software should be created by meeting stringent quality requirements, both functionally and structurally (e.g., privacy, security, robustness, and maintainability). Sustainability can also be considered as a software quality. More effort is needed to progress towards the development of sustainable software for health.

Thus, this Special Issue is seeking methodological or technological manuscripts offering new insights about sustainable software for health in the two perspectives aforementioned (sustainability by software and sustainability in software). Therefore, papers on the following topics (although not limited to them) are welcome to be submitted:

  • Descriptions of development, implementation, validation, or evaluation of sustainable software for health.
  • Analysis of the relations between sustainability and other software quality requirements (privacy, security, usability, maintainability, etc.)
  • Application of sustainability by design in software development for digital health.
  • Sustainable software development and management methodologies for digital health, including agile methods and DevOps practices.
  • Secondary and tertiary studies such as bibliometric studies, systematic literature reviews, mapping studies, scoping reviews, meta-analyses in any area related to sustainable software for health.
  • Empirical studies (case studies, experiments, and surveys) applied to any subject related to sustainable software for health.

Dr. José Luis Fernández-Alemán
Dr. Juan Manuel Carrillo de Gea
Guest Editors

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Green and sustainable software for health
  • Green and sustainable software development for health
  • Green and sustainable software engineering for health
  • Greenability, sustainability, and green IT for health
  • Interplay of health software sustainability and other quality requirements.

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A Study on the Relationship between Usability of GUIs and Power Consumption of a PC: The Case of PHRs
by José A. García-Berná, Sofia Ouhbi, José L. Fernández-Alemán, Juan M. Carrillo de Gea, Joaquín Nicolás, Begoña Moros and Ambrosio Toval
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(4), 1385; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041385 - 3 Feb 2021
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Usability is key to achieve quality in software products. The client applications with a high score in usability might impact on the power consumption when they are run in a PC. For this reason, energy savings turn to be critical in green software [...] Read more.
Usability is key to achieve quality in software products. The client applications with a high score in usability might impact on the power consumption when they are run in a PC. For this reason, energy savings turn to be critical in green software systems. In this paper the relationship between the usability evaluations of the GUIs and the power consumption measurements of the main components of a PC were analysed. A set of 5 web-based personal health records (PHRs) were selected as a case study. The usability assessment was performed by an expert, employing the 14 principles of design by Alan Dix as heuristics. They were scored on a Likert scale after performing a collection of common tasks in the PHRs. At the same time, an equipment to measure the energy consumption of hard disk drive, graphics card, processor, monitor and power supply was used. Spearman’s index was studied for the correlations between the usability assessments and the power consumption measurements. As a results, some weak relationships were found. A total of 5 usability heuristics were observed to may influence energy consumption when they were considered in the implementation of the PHRs. These heuristics were the following ones: consistency, task migratability, observability, recoverability and responsiveness. Based on the results, the usability principles of design cannot always be related to lower energy consumption. Future research should focus on the tradeoffs between usability and power consumption of client applications when they are used in a computer. Full article
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Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops
by Diego Mayordomo-Martínez, Juan M. Carrillo-de-Gea, Ginés García-Mateos, José A. García-Berná, José Luis Fernández-Alemán, Saúl Rosero-López, Salvador Parada-Sarabia and Manuel García-Hernández
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(4), 620; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040620 - 20 Feb 2019
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People with motor disabilities must face many barriers and obstacles in their daily lives, making it difficult to perform everyday tasks. The purpose of this work is to improve their living conditions by providing an app with accessibility information in an updated, reliable [...] Read more.
People with motor disabilities must face many barriers and obstacles in their daily lives, making it difficult to perform everyday tasks. The purpose of this work is to improve their living conditions by providing an app with accessibility information in an updated, reliable and friendly form. The development of the system integrates national and regional accessibility regulations, architectural aspects, with an extensive field work, and a sustainable software process. The levels of accessibility and the requirements of the application are defined in the first phases of the project. The field work included the evaluation of 357 commercial establishments in the city of Murcia, Spain, showing that only 25% have a good accessibility, 40% are practicable with help, and 35% are inaccessible shops. The proposed system achieves its objectives of being sustainable and helping in the accessibility. Besides, the system can be a great incentive for businesses to improve their accessibility conditions. In conclusion, new technologies must have a much more active role in the promotion of universal accessibility. These tools must also consider the necessary requirements of sustainable development. Full article
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