title: COPD - endurance training via mobile phone.
abstract: The purpose of this study is to encourage patients who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to get regular daily exercise via walking. When the patient is exercising at home, the platform generates a short message service (SMS) message to the patient inverted exclamation mark|s mobile phone telling him/her at what level of intensity (i.e. music tempo) he/she should be exercising.
authors.affiliation: National Center for High Performance Computing, Hsinchu,(NCHC) Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shu Hui
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Huan Chin
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: Wen Ho
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Hsin Hung
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Jen Hsien
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Yi Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010807:Physical Endurance; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy*; D017216:Telemedicine