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  • Behavior Change Interventions
  • Health Informatics

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  • Health, mental health, and wellness research applications are often developed in silos.
  • This fragmentation limits collaboration, slows dissemination, and increases research entry barriers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Purple, an extensible and modular system for developing web and mobile health behavior change applications.
  • To provide a shared platform that facilitates collaboration and knowledge dissemination among research teams.

Main Methods:

  • Overview of the Purple system's architecture and core functionalities.
  • Description of features supporting user management, content authorship, delivery, and data management.
  • Discussion of the system's development guided by principles of collaboration and reusability.

Main Results:

  • Purple offers a unified system for building and managing eHealth and mHealth applications.
  • The system includes essential features for research trial management and evaluation.
  • Purple is designed to be modular and repurposable for diverse research needs.

Conclusions:

  • Purple addresses the need for a collaborative and efficient platform in digital health research.
  • The system can facilitate knowledge diffusion and improve the development of effective behavior change applications.
  • Purple supports researchers in creating and deploying usable eHealth and mHealth tools.