Smartphone app to investigate the relationship between social connectivity and mental health

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 287-290

  Boonstra, Tjeerd W ^a,b   Werner Seidler, Aliza ^a   O'Dea, Bridianne ^a   Larsen, Mark E ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL HEALTH; MOBILE APPLICATION; SMARTPHONE;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 85032175708     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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