A novel way to conduct human studies and do some good

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4699-4702

  Buddharaju, Pradeep ^a   Fujiki, Yuichi ^a   Pavlidis, Ioannis ^a   Akleman, Ergun ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human studies; iPhone applications; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIORS; HUMAN STUDIES; HUMAN STUDY; MINIMUM COST; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TIME-AWARENESS; WALKING ACTIVITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 77953107161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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