Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
11th International Conference on Culture and Civilization, Mardin, Türkiye, 22 - 23 Şubat 2022, ss.134-139
Attention to mindfulness has grown
tremendously during the past few years, notably in the domains of psychology
and medicine. Since the early 2000s, there has been an unprecedented development
in communication, information, and internet technology, resulting in
digitalization of the mainstream activities. It is possible to enhance human
well-being via smartphone applications. The findings of the pertinant literature
reveal the effectiveness of these applications on stress reduction thus
considering the impact on human health, evaluating the quality of these
applications is of great importance. The findings of literature review
delineate that the current studies are characterized by expert quality
evaluations where the most frequently used quality evaluation tool is the
Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS). To the best of the authors’ knowledge,
the literature lacks the measurement of mobile application quality from the
user perspective and MARS consists of items that measure the quality from the expert
perspective. Therefore, the objective of this study is to adapt MARS to enable
users to evaluate the quality performance of mindfulness mobile applications. Data
is collected via questionnaires which are conducted to the users of mindfulness
mobile applications. The study is expected to be a pioneer effort in applying a
mobile application quality evaluation scale to end users and given the recent
popularity of mindfulness apps, this study is expected to contribute to the
literature and business practices in terms of understanding the user
perspective of these applications’ quality evaluations.