MobileCoach: A novel open source platform for the design of evidence-based, scalable and low-cost behavioral health interventions: Overview and preliminary evaluation in the public health context

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Filler, Andreas ^a,b,c   Kowatsch, Tobias ^a,b   Haug, Severin ^d   Wahle, Fabian ^a,b   Staake, Thorsten ^c   Fleisch, Elgar ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^d Institut fur Sucht und Gesundheitsforschung Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

addiction; behavioral intervention; empirical study; open source platform; public health

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA STREAMS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADDICTION; BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84940399439     PISSN: 19345070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WTS.2015.7117255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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