Table 4.
Overview of conference papers (n=9) included in the scoping review.
| Author, country | Study objective | Study design | Medical field | App type | User |
| Ameko et al [13], the United States | Develop a treatment recommendation system for emotion regulation using data from participants with high social anxiety to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies. | Quantitative research: experiment | Emotion regulation | Health self-management | Consumers |
| Baldauf et al [51], Switzerland and Austria | Conduct an online survey to investigate consumers’ overall willingness to use, trust factors, and desired characteristics for 4 types of AIa-powered self-diagnosis apps with different data collection and processing methods. | Quantitative research: questionnaire | Skin disease, pneumonia, heart disease, sleep problems | Diagnosis | Consumers |
| Gupta et al [40], India | Develop a prediagnosis system that predicts potential diseases based on a patient’s symptoms and physical measurements. | Quantitative research: case analysis | General practice | Diagnosis | Consumers |
| Iqbal et al [42], India | Propose a new AI-based model for active surveillance of COVID-19. | Quantitative research: case analysis | COVID-19 | Diagnosis | Consumers, health departments |
| Oniani et al [35], the United States | Use a language model to automatically answer COVID-19–related queries and conduct qualitative evaluations. | Qualitative research: expert assessment | COVID-19 | Health care information inquiry | Consumers |
| Park et al [44], Korea | Develop a real-time monitoring system for stroke attacks based on Internet of Things sensors and machine learning technology. | Quantitative research: case analysis | Stroke | Health self-management | Consumers, health departments |
| Su et al [36], the United States | Examine how AI is explained in the descriptions of 40 prevalent mobile health (mHealth) apps that claim to use AI, as well as how consumers perceive these apps. | Systematic review | Fitness, mental health, meditation and sleep, nutrition and diet, pregnancy or menstruation tracking | Diagnosis, health self-management, health care information inquiry | Consumers |
| Sellak et al [50], Australia | Design a model aimed at understanding how to design digital health interventions that can change lives, as well as which software design components enhance consumers’ acceptance, adherence, and sustained engagement. | Quantitative research: case analysis | Fitness | Health self-management | Consumers |
| Tsai et al [38], the United States | Examine how explanations can be used to improve the diagnostic transparency of online symptom checkers. | Mixed methods study: interview, experiment, questionnaire | COVID-19 | Diagnosis | Consumers |
aAI: artificial intelligence.