A mobile health monitoring solution for weight control

2011 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, WCSP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lopes, Ivo M ^a   Silva, Bruno M ^a   Rodrigues, Joel J P C ^a   Lloret, Jaime ^b   Proença, Mario L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

m Health; Mobile Computing; Mobile Health; Ubiquitous Application

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; LIFE STYLES; MHEALTH; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE HEALTH; MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION; MOBILE HEALTH MONITORING; MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATE; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UBIQUITOUS APPLICATION;

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; NUTRITION; RATING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WEIGHT CONTROL; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84555195040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCSP.2011.6096926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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