Mobile phones as medical devices in mental disorder treatment: an overview

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 335-353

  Gravenhorst, Franz ^a   Muaremi, Amir ^a   Bardram, Jakob ^b   Grünerbl, Agnes ^c   Mayora, Oscar ^e   Wurzer, Gabriel ^d   Frost, Mads ^b   Osmani, Venet ^e   Arnrich, Bert ^f   Lukowicz, Paul ^c   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e CREATE NET   (Italy)

^f BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Medical device; Mental disorder; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; INTERFACE STATES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BUSINESS MODELS; DATA MINING METHODS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; LOCATION INFORMATION; MEDICAL DEVICES; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOBILE PHONE TECHNOLOGY;

MHEALTH;

EID: 84925512385     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: 16174917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-014-0829-5     Document Type: Article

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