WalkMSU: An intervention to motivate physical activity in university students

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2657-2662

  Singh, Vikash ^a   Mathew, Anijo Punnen ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interaction design; Obesity; Persuasive computing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; STUDENTS;

INTERACTION DESIGN; PERSUASIVE COMPUTING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 35348858112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1241058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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