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Chances of Increasing Youth Health Awareness through Mobile Wellness Applications

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The poor general state of health of the Austrian youth – which is possibly representative for the western industrial world – will have dramatic effects on our health care system in years to come. Health risks among adolescents, including smoking, alcohol, obesity, lack of physical activity and an unhealthy diet, will lead to an increase in chronic diseases. A preventive measure against such a development could be to reinforce health awareness through the use of web and mobile applications supporting self observation and behavior change. In this paper, we present an overview of the latest developments in the area of mobile wellness and take a look at the features of applications that constitutes the current state of the art, as well as their shortcomings and ways of overcoming these. Finally, we discuss the possibilities offered by new technological developments in the area of mobile devices and by incorporating the characteristics that make up the Web 2.0.

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  1. Institute for Medical Informatics (IMI), Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz, A-8036, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger & Stefan Dorner

  2. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger & Stefan Dorner

  3. Institut für Labordiagnostik, Kaiser Franz Josef Spital, A-1100, Wien, Austria

    Manuela Födinger

  4. Human Technology Centre (Humtec), RWTH Aachen University, D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    André Calero Valdez & Martina Ziefle

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Holzinger, A., Dorner, S., Födinger, M., Valdez, A.C., Ziefle, M. (2010). Chances of Increasing Youth Health Awareness through Mobile Wellness Applications. In: Leitner, G., Hitz, M., Holzinger, A. (eds) HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure. USAB 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6389. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_5

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