An Activity Tracker and Its Accompanying App as a Motivator for Increased Exercise and Better Sleeping Habits for Youths in Need of Social Care: Field Study
BackgroundThe number of mobile self-tracking devices connected to the Web has exploded in today’s society. With these wearable activity trackers related to Web 2.0 apps and social media have come new ways of monitoring, measuring, representing, and sharing experiences of the...
Main Author: | Rönkkö, Kari |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2018-12-01
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Series: | JMIR mHealth and uHealth |
Online Access: | https://mhealth.jmir.org/2018/12/e193/ |
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