Asthmon: Empowering asthmatic children's self-management with a virtual pet

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3583-3588

  Lee, Hee Rin ^a   Panont, Wassa R ^a   Plattenburg, Brian ^b   De La Croix, Jean Pierre ^b   Patharachalam, Dilip ^b   Abowd, Gregory ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Children; Virtual pet

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; SELF MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 77953109269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753846.1754022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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