Mobile phones for health education in the developing world: SMS as a user interface

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Danis, Catalina M ^a   Ellis, Jason B ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a   Van Beijma, Hajo ^b   Hoefman, Bas ^c   Daniels, Steven D ^a   Loggers, Jan Willem ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Text to Change   (Netherlands)

^c Text to Change Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Developing nations; HIV AIDS awareness; ICT4D; mHealth; SMS; Social computing; Text to change

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING NATIONS; HIV/AIDS AWARENESS; ICT4D; MHEALTH; SMS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; TEXT TO CHANGE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79952352810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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