Implications of Application Programming Interfaces for Third‐Party New App Development and Copycatting

Xue, Ling; Song, Peijian; Rai, Arun; Zhang, Cheng; Zhao, Xia

doi:10.1111/poms.13021

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“…These instruction steps can also be included by passing the option to exclude instructions. Lastly, a final step is added for informing users about the completion of the IAT task 12 . Both methods finally return the created IAT active tasks that can be presented to users as an ORKTaskViewController within the app.…”

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“…To help reduce the development overhead, for standardizable processes and tasks, reusable programming frameworks have become the tool of choice independent of the field of application (11,12). For mobile apps, they commonly provide programmers with convenient, standardized components for the user interface (e.g., survey templates, buttons), methods for accessing a device's sensors, or data management.…”

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Implementation of Mobile Psychological Testing on Smart Devices: Evaluation of a ResearchKit-Based Design Approach for the Implicit Association Test

Jungnickel

Jan

Albrecht

2022

Front. Digit. Health

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ObjectiveTo determine whether a framework-based approach for mobile apps is appropriate for the implementation of psychological testing, and equivalent to established methods.MethodsApple's ResearchKit was used for implementing native implicit association test methods (IAT), and an exemplary app was developed to examine users' implicit attitudes toward overweight or thin individuals. For comparison, a web-based IAT app, based on code provided by Project Implicit, was used. Adult volunteers were asked to test both versions on an iPad with touch as well as keyboard input (altogether four tests per participant, random order). Latency values were recorded and used to calculate parameters relevant to the implicit setting. Measurements were analyzed with respect to app type and input method, as well as test order (ANOVA and χ2 tests).ResultsFifty-one datasets were acquired (female, n = 21; male, n = 30, average age 35 ± 4.66 years). Test order and combination of app type and input method influenced the latency values significantly (both P<0.001). This was not mirrored for the D scores or average number of errors vs. app type combined with input method (D scores: P = 0.66; number of errors: P = 0.733) or test order (D scores: P = 0.096; number of errors: P = 0.85). Post-hoc power analysis of the linear ANOVA showed 0.8 by f2=0.25, with α = 0.05 and 4 predictors.ConclusionsThe results suggest that a native mobile implementation of the IAT may be comparable to established implementations. The validity of the acquired measurements seems to depend on the properties of the chosen test rather than the specifics of the chosen platform or input method.

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Implementation of Mobile Psychological Testing on Smart Devices: Evaluation of a ResearchKit-Based Design Approach for the Implicit Association Test

Jungnickel

Jan

Albrecht

2022

Front. Digit. Health

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“…Early research on APIs appears to focus on the context of digital platforms, exploring how third-party app developers leverage API services in their own applications. For instance, a recent article by Xue et al (2019) finds that while platform APIs can facilitate copycatting among app developers -by virtue of creating efficiencies in the development process for key functions -they are more likely to promote original app creations by third-party app developers. While this research represents a useful starting point, there is much more to be learned about the varied ways in which the proliferation of APIs is transforming the orchestration of software development in platform contexts and beyond.…”

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“…Here, orchestration of software development must encompass cloud infrastructure providers, device manufacturers, and medical professionals. The rise of third-party APIs has shifted the orchestration of software development to encompass creating software as modular constellations of microservices (Xue et al, 2019). This enables software developers to build their own functional software on top of specialised services developed by third parties.…”

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The evolution of software development orchestration: current state and an agenda for future research

Maruping

Matook

2020

European Journal of Information Systems

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“…1212Other recently published papers in POM using PSM also present such distribution balance checks (Xue et al., 2019; Zhang & Yao, 2020). …”

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On the causality and plausibility of treatment effects in operations management research

Mithas

Chen

Lin

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Production and Operations Management

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Empirical research in operations management (OM) has made rapid strides in the last 30 years, and increasingly, OM researchers are leveraging methods used in the econometrics and statistics literature to assess the causal effects of interventions. We discuss the two key challenges in assessing causality with observational data (i.e., baseline bias, differential treatment effect bias) and how dominant identification approaches such as matching, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference‐in‐differences, and fixed effects deal with such challenges. We surface the key underlying assumptions of different causal estimation methods and discuss how OM scholars have used these methods in the last few years. We hope that reflecting on the plausibility and substantive meaning of underlying assumptions regarding different identification strategies in a particular context will lead to a better conceptualization, execution, evaluation, dissemination, and consumption of OM research. We conclude with a few thoughts that authors and reviewers may find helpful in their research as they engage in discourse related to causality.

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Implications of Application Programming Interfaces for Third‐Party New App Development and Copycatting

Cited by 24 publications

References 75 publications

Implementation of Mobile Psychological Testing on Smart Devices: Evaluation of a ResearchKit-Based Design Approach for the Implicit Association Test

Implementation of Mobile Psychological Testing on Smart Devices: Evaluation of a ResearchKit-Based Design Approach for the Implicit Association Test

The evolution of software development orchestration: current state and an agenda for future research

On the causality and plausibility of treatment effects in operations management research

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