Chances of increasing youth health awareness through mobile wellness applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-81

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a,b   Dorner, Stefan ^a,b   Födinger, Manuela ^c   Valdez, André Calero ^d   Ziefle, Martina ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c KAISER FRANZ JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

behavior change; Health; mobile computing; prevention; self observation; Web 2.0; Wellness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; PREVENTION; SELF-OBSERVATION; WEB 2.0; WELLNESS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; HEALTH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; NUTRITION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 78650011537     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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