Development of a location and movement monitoring system to quantify physical activity

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2889-2894

  MacLellan, Gillian ^a   Baillie, Lynne ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Global positioning system (GPS); Mobile HCI; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORS; ACTIVITY PATTERNS; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MOBILE HCI; MOVEMENT MONITORING SYSTEMS; OVER WEIGHTS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH RISKS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049146921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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