Mobile health apps: adoption, adherence, and abandonment
Adjunct proceedings of the 2015 ACM international joint conference on …, 2015•dl.acm.org
A myriad of mobile technologies purport to help individuals change or maintain health-
related behaviors, for instance by increasing motivation or self-awareness. We provide a fine-
grained categorization of popular mobile health applications and also examine the
perceived efficacy of apps along with reasons underlying both app adoption and
abandonment. Our findings bear implications for future tools designed to support health
management.
related behaviors, for instance by increasing motivation or self-awareness. We provide a fine-
grained categorization of popular mobile health applications and also examine the
perceived efficacy of apps along with reasons underlying both app adoption and
abandonment. Our findings bear implications for future tools designed to support health
management.
A myriad of mobile technologies purport to help individuals change or maintain health-related behaviors, for instance by increasing motivation or self-awareness. We provide a fine-grained categorization of popular mobile health applications and also examine the perceived efficacy of apps along with reasons underlying both app adoption and abandonment. Our findings bear implications for future tools designed to support health management.
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