Fitness Tour: A mobile application for combating obesity

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chuah, M ^a   Sample, Steve ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health; location based application; outdoor physical activity; privacy

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEATHCARE; LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NEW APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SELF-ORGANIZED; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL PRESSURES;

NUTRITION; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; STUDENTS;

HEALTH;

EID: 80051563260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2007036.2007048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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