• DocumentCode
    2887956
  • Title

    Android application development to promote physical activity in adolescents

  • Author

    Clark, Darryl ; Edmonds, Clarence ; Moore, Antonio ; Harlow, Julee ; Allen, Kacie ; Winchester, Woodrow W., III ; McCrickard, D. Scott ; Estabrooks, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, Norfolk State University, VA 23504 USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    21-25 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    566
  • Lastpage
    568
  • Abstract
    Adolescents in today´s society are becoming increasingly less active, contributing to a rising obesity rate. With this epidemic as motivation, and the use of smart phones by youth as opportunity, a suite of Android Applications was developed to promote physical activity among this population.
  • Keywords
    human-computer interaction; mobile computing; mobile interfaces; usability engineering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1381-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CTS.2012.6261106
  • Filename
    6261106