User acceptance of location-tracking technologies in health research: Implications for study design and data quality

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue , 2018, Pages 7-19

  Hardy, Jean ^a   Veinot, Tiffany C ^a   Yan, Xiang ^a   Berrocal, Veronica J ^a   Clarke, Philippa ^a   Goodspeed, Robert ^a   Gomez Lopez, Iris N ^a   Romero, Daniel ^a   Vydiswaran, V G Vinod ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; GPS watches; Health behavior; Location tracking; Smartphones; User acceptance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STUDY DESIGN; AMBULATORY MONITORING; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMARTPHONE; TECHNOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA ACCURACY; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SMARTPHONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85042353956     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.01.003     Document Type: Note

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