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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Collective creation and sense-making of mobile media
Traditionally, mobile media sharing and messaging has been studied from the perspective of an individual author making media available to other users. With the aim of supporting s...
Antti Salovaara, Giulio Jacucci, Antti Oulasvirta,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
ELMR: lightweight mobile health records
Cell phones are increasingly being used as common clients for a wide suite of distributed, database-centric healthcare applications in developing regions. This is particularly tru...
Arvind Kumar, Amey Purandare, Jay Chen, Arthur Mea...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Context-for-wireless: context-sensitive energy-efficient wireless data transfer
Ubiquitous connectivity on mobile devices will enable numerous new applications in healthcare and multimedia. We set out to check how close we are towards ubiquitous connectivity ...
Ahmad Rahmati, Lin Zhong
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mobile-izing health workers in rural India
Researchers have long been interested in the potential of ICTs to enable positive change in developing regions communities. In these environments, ICT interventions often fail bec...
Divya Ramachandran, John Canny, Prabhu Dutta Das, ...