Smartphones, smart seniors, but not-so-smart apps: A heuristic evaluation of fitness apps

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8534 LNAI, Issue , 2014, Pages 347-358

  Silva, Paula Alexandra ^a,b   Holden, Kelly ^a   Nii, Aska ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

active aging; gamification; health and fitness; heuristic evaluation; heuristics; Older adults

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH; USER INTERFACES;

GAMIFICATION; GOOGLE PLAYS; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; HEURISTICS; OLDER ADULTS; PHYSICAL EXERCISE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SMALL TARGETS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84958553773     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07527-3_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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