ReviewmHealth2021
Mobile physical activity planning and tracking: a brief overview of current options and desiderata for future solutions.
Review in mHealth, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluating an Incentive-Based mHealth App for Physical Activity Promotion Using the Obesity-Related Behavioral Intervention Trial Model: Small Cohort Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Efficacy of exercise-based interventions for prediabetes: an umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators to non-pharmacological management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a qualitative evidence synthesis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Influence of smartphone-based physical activity intervention on executive functions and cardiometabolic disease risk in obese young adults: a pilot randomised controlled trial.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review on Wearable Devices for Environmental Monitoring and Their Application for Health and Wellness.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Feelings of safety during daytime walking: associations with mental health, physical activity and cardiometabolic health in high vacancy, low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- Smart city lifestyle sensing, big data, geo-analytics and intelligence for smarter public health decision-making in overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention: the research we should be doing.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- Digital Health in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.Endocrine researchReview
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Abstract
Consistent and enjoyable physical activity (PA) can be a crucial component to improving or maintaining one's overall health status. Using advanced features on smartphones (GPS, Bluetooth, motion sensing, etc.) coupled with an app or game that is able to assist mobile users to not only track location, but also to interact socially with others based in real-life (IRL), virtual reality (VR), or alternate-reality (ARG), has the potential to give health experts better tools to encourage higher compliance to protocols, rehabilitation, behaviour change and health outcomes. This paper outlines the available mHealth apps that capitalize on pervasive smartphone features coupled with sensors, and suggests which features might impact future PA patterns. The authors argue that the ultimate mobile PA planning and tracking app/platform will be the one capable of supporting both precision and accuracy health (offering truly individualized PA advice and coaching while preserving user privacy) and precision and accuracy public health (providing public health decision makers with community-level PA indicators obtained from app data aggregates of user populations).
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