Automated Personalized Feedback for Physical Activity and Dietary Behavior Change with Mobile Phones: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Adults

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Rabbi, Mashfiqui ^a   Pfammatter, Angela ^b   Zhang, I ^c   Spring, Bonnie ^b   Choudhury, Tanzeem ^a  

^a Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Context aware systems; Machine learning; Mhealth; Mobile health; Mobile phone sensing; Personal health care; Physical activity; Self management; Smart systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951286491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4160     Document Type: Article

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