Let's all get up and walk to the north pole: Design and evaluation of a mobile wellness application

NordiCHI 2010: Extending Boundaries - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-12

  Ahtinen, Aino ^a   Huuskonen, Pertti ^a   Häkkilä, Jonna ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Evaluation; Metaphor; Mobile applications; Playfulness; Social sharing; User experience; User studies; Wellness

Indexed keywords

ANALOGY; EVALUATION; METAPHOR; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PLAYFULNESS; SOCIAL SHARING; USER EXPERIENCE; USER STUDY; WELLNESS;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78650155900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1868914.1868920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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