Wellness assistant: A virtual wellness assistant using pervasive computing

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 782-787

  Ahamed, Sheikh I ^a   Haque, Munirul M ^a   Stamm, Karl ^a   Khan, Ahmed J ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Marks; Mote; Pervasive health care; TinyOS; Wellness assistant

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

PERVASIVE HEALTH CARE; WELLNESS ASSISTANTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 35248825890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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