Motivation and user engagement in fitness tracking: Heuristics for mobile healthcare wearables

Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Asimakopoulos, Stavros ^a   Asimakopoulos, Grigorios ^b   Spillers, Frank ^c  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Experience Dynamics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness tracking; MHealth heuristics; Mobile healthcare; Motivation; Self efficacy; User engagement; Wearable technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85111403595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/informatics4010005     Document Type: Article

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