Design, implementation and validation of a novel open framework for agile development of mobile health applications

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Banos, Oresti ^a,b   Villalonga, Claudia ^a   Garcia, Rafael ^a   Saez, Alejandro ^a   Damas, Miguel ^a   Holgado Terriza, Juan A ^a   Lee, Sungyong ^b   Pomares, Hector ^a   Rojas, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Biomedical sensors; Digital health; Health devices; Human behavior; MHealth framework; Mobile health; Portable sensors; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOSENSORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL STORAGE; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; BIOMEDICAL SENSORS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; MHEALTH; MOBILE HEALTH; PORTABLE SENSORS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ALERT ENABLER; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSENSOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; GUIDELINE ENABLER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH DATA VISUALIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL REPORT ENABLER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; NOTIFICATION ENABLER; ONLINE MONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL WELL-BEING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STUDY DESIGN; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTOR; VALIDATION STUDY;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84952649086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-14-S2-S6     Document Type: Article

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