The future is now-using personal cellphones to gather data on substance use and related factors

Addiction

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1052-1053

  Kuntsche, Emmanuel ^a   Labhart, Florian ^a  

^a ADDICTION SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dedicated application; Ecological momentary assessment; Experience sampling; ICAT; Multi media; Recall bias; Smartphones; Survey development

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

CELL PHONES; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84902078126     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.12540     Document Type: Editorial

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