Mobile Applications to Support Dietary Change: Highlighting the Importance of Evaluation Context

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2012-January, Issue , 2012, Pages 1781-1786

  Freyne, Jill ^a   Brindal, Emily ^a   Hendrie, Gilly ^a   Berkovsky, Shlomo ^a   Coombe, Mac ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

application; context; diet; health; mobile; obesity; user study

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MHEALTH; MOBILE COMPUTING; NUTRITION;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTEXT; DIETARY CHANGES; MOBILE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; OBESITY; SMART PHONES; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; USER BEHAVIORS; USER STUDY;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 85139401367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2223709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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