Development of a smartphone application to measure physical activity using sensor-assisted self-report

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Dunton, Genevieve Fridlund ^a,b   Dzubur, Eldin ^a   Kawabata, Keito ^a   Yanez, Brenda ^a   Bo, Bin ^c   Intille, Stephen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Northeastern University   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context sensitive ecological momentary assessment; Experience sampling; Mobile phone; Physical activity; Sedentary behavior; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010035622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00012     Document Type: Article

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