Flowie: A persuasive virtual coach to motivate elderly individuals to walk

2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - Pervasive Health 2009, PCTHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Albaina, Iñaki Merino ^a   Visser, Thomas ^b   Van Der Mast, Charles A P O ^a   Vastenburg, Martijn H ^b  

^a Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science ^*  (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavior modification; Context awareness; Elderly; Healthy lifestyles; Persuasive technology; Physical activity; Preventive healthcare

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; ELDERLY; HEALTHY LIFESTYLES; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 70350749876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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