Development and evaluation of tools for measuring the quality of experience (QoE) in mHealth applications

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Martínez Pérez, Borja ^a   De La Torre Díez, Isabel ^a   Candelas Plasencia, Sonia ^a   López Coronado, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Likert .mHealth; Quality of Experience (QoE); Survey

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIKERT SCALE; MOBILE PHONE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MOBILE APPLICATION; TELEMEDICINE;

CELL PHONES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84883462441     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-013-9976-x     Document Type: Article

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