Designing an application to motivate teenagers' physical activity

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6106-6110

  Arteaga, Sonia M ^a   Kurniawan, Sri ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; evaluation; health; iPod Touch; physical activity; teenagers; user study

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; IPOD TOUCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; TEENAGERS; USER STUDY;

ACCELEROMETERS; DESIGN;

HEALTH;

EID: 84871952961     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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