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A new study has discovered that mobile apps can play a vital role in helping immigrants integrate into new cultures, as well as provide physical and mental health benefits.The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Computers in Human Behavior'. Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) surveyed new migrants and refugees undertaking free beginners' language classes in Greece, often the first destination for people arriving into Europe from Africa and Asia, over a 10-month period.The findings showed that those using mobile apps aided by artificial intelligence (AI), such as language assistants, customised information sites, or health symptom trackers, experienced 5.3 per cent better health status, and increased social integration by 2.7 per cent.Other, non-AI applications, such as those to signpost public services, improved general health status by a much smaller amount, under 1 per cent.Professor Nick Drydakis, Director of the Centre for Pluralist Economics at ARU, said, "AI apps work by providing services like customised search results, peer-reviewed e-learning, professional coaching on pronunciation, real-time translations, and virtual communication for finding possible explanations for health conditions. Our study found these to be of significant benefit for migrants in relation to integration, health, and mental health.""The World Health Orgsation recommends the use of health apps in improving services, particularly for vulnerable populations. Mobile applications and AI, if used correctly, can clearly benefit the lives of people arriving in an unfamiliar new country - however around a third of people we surveyed did not possess a smartphone, potentially providing a barrier to these benefits," added Drydakis.The professor further noted that the study is the first to examine the use of mobile applications to support migrants' needs in relation to societal integration and quantify associations between mobile applications, health, mental health, and integration for migrants, and assess the role of AI in enhancing these outcomes.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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A new study has discovered that mobile apps can play a vital role in helping immigrants integrate into new cultures, as well as provide physical and mental health benefits. ...