Don't forget your pill! Designing effective medication reminder apps that support users' daily routines

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2269-2278

  Stawarz, Katarzyna ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a   Blandford, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forgetfulness; Habits; Medication reminders; Routines; Smartphone apps

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

FORGETFULNESS; HABITS; MEDICATION REMINDERS; ROUTINES; SMARTPHONE APPS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84900407012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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