Using heart rate monitors for personal wellness - The user experience perspective

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1591-1597

  Ahtinen, Aino ^a   Mäntyjärvi, Jani ^a   Häkkilä, Jonna ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART; PATIENT MONITORING;

BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; END USERS; HEART-RATE MONITORS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER STUDY; WELLNESS TECHNOLOGIES;

SURVEYS;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

ADULT; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84903862790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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