(AYA) Adolescent and Young Adult Clinics

We're continuing to explore communication and dissemination of the app with our partners and collaborators, including a number of advocacy groups and nurses in AYA clinics. Our app is a hybrid,and we can continue to explore building hybrids,but kind of in a reversal.

We're now building light versions of the apps with the main elements and functionality to be kept in databases. So we actually can have more access to the information,kind of lessons and learned and next steps for us. You need to plan for ongoing maintenance and updates. Apps aren't a build once and forget about it. There's always something that needs to be improved or updated. You want to keep it fresh and add new functions to engage the users. Given this, it's important to choose your technology partner wisely. It's also a good idea to keep your own copy of the code so that you can change or adapt the app if for some reason you need to find a new technology partner. As I suggested there is kind of a lack of data for researchers from the native apps or apps that run on the phone, which is why we're advising our health behavior researchers and those who want to create apps to look at hybrid models that include some light weight apps that can be marketed and downloaded on the iPhone app store and the Android Plus. This also provides for greater security and privacy of data in case the user loses his phone.

In talking about where we're going, in the meantime since AYA was developed,we developed two additional apps for cancer survivors using geographic information technology or GIS. I can fit is a research project that encourages goal setting and provides a GIS locator for healthy places for physical activity. The locator,which was developed for life beyond cancer foundation,is an interactive mobile map for non-clinical resources. We're also beginning to look at sensors and using sensors and GIS together. I think that have great potential for health behavior change,and we think it kind of gives us a brave new world. I hope that all of you are considering it,pursue them,and I'll always be glad to provide any guidance or help that I can. That concludes my presentation. So what I'd like to do now is turn the slides over to Dr.  Versie Johnson-Mallard from the University of South Florida.

Versie Johnson-Mallard: thank you so much. That is such an exciting and useful technology. Please allow meto introduce myself again. 

I bring to you greetings from the University of South Florida and our. I have no conflicts to share. I'm going to spend a few minutes talking about technology, specifically second life that I've used to--as a virtual environment to increase knowledge around HPV. HPV is strongly linked to cervical cancer,and we'll talk a little bit about this just briefly.