Usability and feasibility of PmEB: A mobile phone application for monitoring real time caloric balance

2006 Pervasive Health Conference and Workshops, PervasiveHealth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tsai, Christopher C ^a   Lee, Gunny ^b   Raab, Fred ^c   Norman, Gregory J ^c   Sohn, Timothy ^d   Griswold, William G ^d   Patrick, Kevin ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUTRITION; PLANNING;

CELL PHONE APPLICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MOBILE PHONE APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SELF-MONITORING; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; USABILITY STUDIES; WEIGHT MANAGEMENT;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 50349101547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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