Towards combating youth obesity with a mobile fitness application

Proceedings 2012 17th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education, WMUTE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 226-228

  Lu, Fletcher ^a   Welton, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

applications; education; fitness; mobile technology; obesity; youth

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; COMPUTER GAME; FITNESS; MOBILE FACILITY; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; YOUTH;

APPLICATIONS; EDUCATION; HEALTH; MOBILE DEVICES; NUTRITION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84860814430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WMUTE.2012.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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