Integrating volunteered geographic information into pervasive health computing applications

2011 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 93-100

  Mooney, Peter ^a   Corcoran, Padraig ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

HEALTH CARE;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 80054888656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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