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Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2011 Sep 9;45(1):184–198. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.017

Table 1.

Examples of mobile-phone health interventions, broken by intervention strategies and phone features that they employ.

Phone feature/intervention strategy Text messaging Cameras Native applications Automated sensing Internet access
Tracking health information Holtz & Whitten [43], Anhøj et al. [21], Franklin et al. [44], Haug et al. [2] Brown et al. [22], Mamykina et al. [23], Mattila et al. [29] Mamykina et al. [23], Denning et al. [26], Lee et al. [27], Consolvo et al. [28, 71], Mattila et al. [29], Gasser et al. [39], Kollmann et al. [40], Walters et al. [41] Mamykina et al. [23], Denning et al. [26], Consolvo et al. [28, 71] Mamykina et al. [23], Kollmann et al. [40], Walters et al. [41], Kim & Kim [51], Park et al. [52]
Involving the healthcare team Obermayer et al. [1], Haug et al. [2], Holtz & Whitten [43], Franklin et al. [44], Kim & Kim [51], Park et al. [52] Mamykina et al. [23], Schreier et al. [24] Mamykina et al. [23], Walters et al. [41], Farmer et al. [50], Kearney et al. [56], Larsen et al. [57], Morris et al. [62] Rubel et al. [7], Mamykina et al. [23], Farmer et al. [50], Villalba et al. [54], Scherr et al. [60] Rubel et al. [7], Mamykina et al. [23], Farmer et al. [50], Villalba et al. [54], Scherr et al. [60]
Leveraging social influence Obermayer et al. [1], Franklin et al. [44], Roger et al. [72], Riley et al. [74], Whittaker et al. [75] Gasser et al. [39], Consolvo et al. [71] Consolvo et al. [71]
Increasing the accessibility of health information Wangberg et al. [3], Armstrong et al. [5], Leong et al. [33], Roger et al. [72], Gerber et al. [79], Curioso et al. [81], Strandbygaard et al. [82], Castaño & Martínez [85] Consolvo et al. [28], Chiu et al. [87] Consolvo et al. [28], Chiu et al. [87]
Utilizing entertainment Armstrong et al. [5], Rogers et al. [72] DeShazo et al. [31], Grimes et al. [91]