Prioritizing the mhealth design space: a mixed-methods analysis of smokers’ perspectives

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Hartzler, Andrea Lisabeth ^a   Blue Spruce, June ^a   Catz, Sheryl L ^b   McClure, Jennifer B ^a  

^a GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human centered design; Human computer interaction; Mobile health; Smartphone; Smoking cessation; Software design; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044851761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5742     Document Type: Article

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