Thinking of training for a marathon, giving up smoking, losing weight, or just aiming to take a more proactive approach to managing your health and fitness? Then you've probably already skimmed through the thousands of mobile apps that offer just these kinds of services. For starters, there's an app that analyses the quality of your sleep, apps that help you monitor your bowel movements, and several that help you brush your teeth effectively. The message is clear: apps are a powerful and increasingly popular tool for influencing our health. And yet the science is less well established. Little is known about how apps influence people and how to make them more effective in future. To find out, researchers are increasingly working at the intersection of health sciences and mobile technologies. Their work could profoundly change the way we manage our health and well-being.
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