Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Quality of Life Technologies

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References and Further Reading

  • Chatterton, T., & Wilson, C. (2014). The “‘Four Dimensions of Behaviour” framework: A tool for characterising behaviours to help design better interventions. Transportation Planning and Technology, 37(1), 38–61.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • de Wit, M., & Hajos, T. (2013). Quality of life. In M. D. Gellman & J. R. Turner (Eds.), Encyclopedia of behavioral medicine. New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hagströmer, M., Oja, P., & Sjöström, M. (2006). The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ): A study of concurrent and construct validity. Public Health Nutrition, 9(6), 755–762.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jensen, R. E., Rothrock, N. E., DeWitt, E. M., Spiegel, B., Tucker, C. A., Crane, H. M., … Cella, D. (2015). The role of technical advances in the adoption and integration of patient-reported outcomes in clinical care. Medical Care, 53(2), 153.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schulz, R., Beach, S. R., Matthews, J. T., Courtney, K. L., & Dabbs, A. J. D. V. (2012). Designing and evaluating quality of life technologies: An interdisciplinary approach. Proceedings of the IEEE, 100(8), 2397–2409.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wac, K. (2018). From quantified self to quality of life. In Digital health (Health informatics). Dordrecht: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wac, K., Fiordelli, M., Gustarini, M., & Rivas, H. (2015). Quality of life technologies: Experiences from the field and key research challenges. IEEE Internet Computing (IEEE IC), special issue on Personalized Digital Health, July 2015.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wac, K., Rivas, H., & Fiordelli, M. (2017). Guest editorial: Quality of life technologies, special issue: IEEE Computer, March 2017.

    Google Scholar 

  • WHO Working Group. (1998). The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Development and general psychometric properties. Social Science & Medicine, 46(12), 1569–1585.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Katarzyna Wac

  2. QoL Lab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Katarzyna Wac

Authors
  1. Katarzyna Wac
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Katarzyna Wac .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Marc Gellman

Section Editor information

  1. Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Emily Lattie

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

About this entry

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this entry

Wac, K. (2020). Quality of Life Technologies. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_102013-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_102013-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-6439-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-6439-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference MedicineReference Module Medicine

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation