A comparison of tablet computer and paper-based questionnaires in healthy aging research

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Fanning, Jason ^a   McAuley, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral psychology; Healthy aging; Questionnaire; Tablet computer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85093357230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3291     Document Type: Article

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