UbiMeds: A mobile application to improve accessibility and support medication adherence

1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Media Studies and Implementations that Help Improving Access to Disabled Users, MSIADU'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conf. Multimedia,MM'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-78

  Silva, Juan M ^a   Mouttham, Alain ^a   El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Medication adherence; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous web; Web services

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; DESIGN PROCESS; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; UBIQUITOUS WEB;

METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 72249095187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1631097.1631109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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