ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to help researchers, test developers, and test users navigate the seemingly uncharted waters of mobile testing. The mobile psychological assessment involves administering stimuli and collecting responses via a mobile device. In the mobile environment, basic information about a piece of equipment is made available to trainees via applications that can be run on a variety of mobile devices. The emergence of reliable wireless networking technology, faster microprocessors, and high-resolution displays, which could be integrated into consumer-friendly handheld devices, has led to an explosion of mobile assessment applications in education, health, and workplace contexts. Keeping with emerging conventions, the authors designate mobile testing applications in these three mobile testing fields as mobile learning (mLearning), mobile health (mHealth) and mobile work (mWork), respectively. The mHealth assessment initiatives have been largely driven by public health concerns, where efficient, comprehensive and standardized assessments of patients psychosocial symptoms and outcomes are seen as supportive of diagnostic and treatment initiatives.
