Myfootcare: A mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers (2025)

Brown, R., Ploderer, B., Da Seng, L. S., Lazzarini, P. (2017). Myfootcare: A mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers. In M. Brereton, D. Vyas, A. Soro, B. Ploderer, J. Waycott, & A. Morrison (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Human-Nature, OzCHI 2017 (pp. 462-466). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3156158

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keywords = "Diabetic Foot Ulcer, Mobile Devices, Personal Informatics, Self-monitoring",

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Brown, R, Ploderer, B, Da Seng, LS, Lazzarini, P 2017, Myfootcare: A mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers. in M Brereton, D Vyas, A Soro, B Ploderer, J Waycott & A Morrison (eds), Proceedings of the 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Human-Nature, OzCHI 2017. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 462-466, 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2017, Brisbane, Australia, 28/11/2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3156158

Myfootcare: A mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers. / Brown, Ross; Ploderer, Bernd; Da Seng, Leonard Si et al.
Proceedings of the 29th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Human-Nature, OzCHI 2017. ed. / Margot Brereton; Dhaval Vyas; Alessandro Soro; Bernd Ploderer; Jenny Waycott; Ann Morrison. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 462-466 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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