TY - GEN
T1 - Are mobile blood donation applications green?
AU - Ouhbi, Sofia
AU - Fernández-Alemán, José Luis
AU - Idri, Ali
AU - Pozo, José Rivera
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - On a global scale, software sustainability is attracting more and more attention. The term green software often refers to environmental sustainability applied to software systems, however, it is impacted by the different dimensions of sustainability. Green software can be divided into green by software and green in software. Blood donation mobile applications are more and more used by smartphone users. They represent an alternative way to attract volunteers and increase awareness about the importance of blood donation acts. The aim of this paper is to assess the greenability of seventy-two free blood donation applications using individual, social, environmental and technical dimensions of sustainability. The type, functionality and energy consumption of each app are identified and analyzed. Results have shown that the type of the BD app has a great impact on its level of greenability.
AB - On a global scale, software sustainability is attracting more and more attention. The term green software often refers to environmental sustainability applied to software systems, however, it is impacted by the different dimensions of sustainability. Green software can be divided into green by software and green in software. Blood donation mobile applications are more and more used by smartphone users. They represent an alternative way to attract volunteers and increase awareness about the importance of blood donation acts. The aim of this paper is to assess the greenability of seventy-two free blood donation applications using individual, social, environmental and technical dimensions of sustainability. The type, functionality and energy consumption of each app are identified and analyzed. Results have shown that the type of the BD app has a great impact on its level of greenability.
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U2 - 10.1109/SITA.2015.7358377
DO - 10.1109/SITA.2015.7358377
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962393996
T3 - 2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015
BT - 2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015
Y2 - 20 October 2015 through 21 October 2015
ER -