Proyecto de implantación de SAP University Alliances en la Universitat Politècnica de València

[ES] SAP University Alliances (SAP UA) es un programa cooperativo dirigido a universidades y escuelas superiores cuyo objetivo es facilitar la integración del Sistema de Gestión Empresarial SAP en la enseñanza oficial. El Proyecto de implantación de SAP UA en la Universitat Politècnica de València (SAP UA UPV) ha sido impulsado por el Vicerrectorado de Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones. Actualmente el Proyecto SAP UA UPV integra a 34 profesores de cinco Departamentos: Proyectos de Ingeniería, Organización de empresa, Economía y Ciencias sociales, Comunicaciones, Sistemas Informáticos y Computación. Como consecuencia lógica del marco inter-departamental y multi-disciplinar del proyecto SAP UA UPV, se establece una relación transversal entre Escuelas y Titulaciones. Con el objetivo de dotar al Proyecto SAP UA UPV de un marco docente formal y estructurado, se ha creado un grupo de trabajo inter-departamental colaborativo y coordinado. El objetivo del grupo es la puesta en marcha de experiencias docentes basadas en SAP, así como minimizar potenciales problemas de concurrencia sobre la información en el sistema SAP. El presente artículo describe el Proyecto SAP UA UPV desde la perspectiva de la coordinación, los resultados obtenidos en e[Otros] SAP University Alliances (SAP UA) is a cooperative program to help SAP Enterprise Resourcing Planning incorporation in formal education. The implementation of SAP UA Project at the Universitat Politècnica de València (SAP UA UPV) has been carried out the Vice-rectorate for the Development of ITC Technologies. Currently, SAP UA UPV Project involves 34 lecturers from five Departments: Engineering Projects, Business Organization, Economics and Social Sciences, Communications, IT and Computer Systems. As a logical consequence of the inter-departmental and multi-disciplinary framework of SAP UA UPV Project, a cross relationship between Schools and Degrees has been established. In order to provide SAP UA UPV with a formal and structured educational framework an inter-departmental collaborative and coordinated working group has been created. The group's aim is SAP-based learning experiences support and prevents potential concurrency data problems on UPV SAP system. This article describes the SAP UA UPV project from its coordination point of view. Likewise, results obtained in the first year of its implementation, and future lines of work are presented.Asensio-Cuesta, S. (2014). Proyecto de implantación de SAP University Alliances en la Universitat Politècnica de València. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1-13. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/167119S11

MANUAL BÁSICO DE MS PROJECT

Manual básico de Ms Project que incluye descripción de conceptos de gestión de proyectos y una colección de 25 ejercicios resueltos paso a paso. Versión Ms Project 2010.Asensio Cuesta, S. (2014). MANUAL BÁSICO DE MS PROJECT. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/40287

Un modelo para definir la programación de la producción en un taller de flujo con tiempos de cambio de partida dependientes considerando productividad y ergonomía

[EN] The manufacturer industry is characterized by the presence of highly repetitive movements, which is a major risk factor associated with work musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Moreover, this risk factor worsens when workers do not take adequate rest periods. This paper analyzes the problem and presents a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) mathematical model to minimize makespan in an n¿job flow-shop problem with sequence-dependent setup times by considering recovery times. To this end, the model combines the effectiveness of MILP mathematical model optimization with the OCRA ergonomic assessment method. The model calculates work-recovery periods in workers¿ schedules based on the OCRA included in standards UNE¿EN 1005¿5:2007 and ISO 11228¿3:2007. Finally, a case study in a Food Sector Company is described.[ES] La industria manufacturera se caracteriza por la presencia de una elevada repetitividad de movimientos de sus trabajadores, siendo éste un importante factor de riesgo asociado con los trastornos musculoesqueléticos (TME) de origen laboral. Además, dicho factor de riesgo empeora cuando los trabajadores no realizan períodos de descanso adecuados. Este artículo analiza dicha problemática y presenta un modelo matemático de Programación Lineal Entera Mixta (PLEM) para minimizar el makespan en un problema de secuenciación flow-shop de n-trabajos con tiempos de setup dependientes de la secuencia, considerando los tiempos de recuperación de los trabajadores. Para ello, el modelo combina la efectividad de la optimización del modelo matemático de PLEM con el método de evaluación ergonómica OCRA. El modelo calcula los períodos de recuperación de los trabajadores según el método OCRA incluido en las normas UNE-EN 1005-5: 2007 e ISO 11228-3: 2007. Finalmente, se describe un caso de estudio en una empresa del sector alimentario.Asensio Cuesta, S.; Gómez-Gasquet, P. (2017). A model to define setup time sequence dependent flow shop scheduling considering productivity and ergonomic. Dyna. New Technologies. 5:1-15. doi:10.6036/NT8632S115

Robustness and findings of a web-based system for depression assessment in a university work context

[EN] Depression is associated with absenteeism and presentism, problems in workplace relationships and loss of productivity and quality. The present work describes the validation of a web-based system for the assessment of depression in the university work context. The basis of the system is the Spanish version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). A total of 185 participants completed the BDI-II web-based assessment, including 88 males and 97 females, 70 faculty members and 115 staff members. A high level of internal consistency reliability was confirmed. Based on the results of our web-based BDI-II, no significant differences were found in depression severity between gender, age or workers' groups. The main depression risk factors reported were: Changes in sleep, Loss of energy, Tiredness or fatigue and Loss of interest. However significant differences were found by gender in Changes in appetite, Difficulty of concentration and Loss of interest in sex; males expressed less loss of interest in sex than females with a statistically significant difference. Our results indicate that the data collected is coherent with previous BDI-II studies. We conclude that the web-based system based on the BDI-II is psychometrically robust and can be used to assess depression in the university working community.Funding for this study was provided by the authors' various departments, and partially by the CrowdHealth Project (Collective Wisdom Driving Public Health Policies [727560]), the MTS4up project (DPI2016-80054-R) and patient-centered pathways of early palliative care, supportive ecosystems and appraisal standard (825750).Asensio-Cuesta, S.; Bresó, A.; Sáez Silvestre, C.; Garcia-Gomez, JM. (2019). Robustness and findings of a web-based system for depression assessment in a university work context. International Journal of Environmental research and Public Health. 16(4):1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040644S117164Depression [Internet]. World Health Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/Chang, S. M., Hong, J.-P., & Cho, M. J. (2011). Economic burden of depression in South Korea. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(5), 683-689. doi:10.1007/s00127-011-0382-8Greenberg, P. E., Fournier, A.-A., Sisitsky, T., Pike, C. T., & Kessler, R. C. (2015). The Economic Burden of Adults With Major Depressive Disorder in the United States (2005 and 2010). The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 76(02), 155-162. doi:10.4088/jcp.14m09298Health and Safety at Work in Europe (1999–2007): A Statistical Portrait. Luxembourg. Publications Office of the European Union https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/5718905/KS-31-09-290-EN.PDF/88eef9f7-c229-40de-b1cd-43126bc4a946Lee, Y., Rosenblat, J. D., Lee, J., Carmona, N. E., Subramaniapillai, M., Shekotikhina, M., … McIntyre, R. S. (2018). Efficacy of antidepressants on measures of workplace functioning in major depressive disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 406-415. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2017.11.003Schmidt, S., Roesler, U., Kusserow, T., & Rau, R. (2012). Uncertainty in the workplace: Examining role ambiguity and role conflict, and their link to depression—a meta-analysis. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23(1), 91-106. doi:10.1080/1359432x.2012.711523Cuijpers, P., & Smit, F. (2004). Subthreshold depression as a risk indicator for major depressive disorder: a systematic review of prospective studies. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 109(5), 325-331. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00301.xRihmer, Z. (2001). Can better recognition and treatment of depression reduce suicide rates? A brief review. European Psychiatry, 16(7), 406-409. doi:10.1016/s0924-9338(01)00598-3Nogueira-Martins, L. A., Fagnani Neto, R., Macedo, P. C. M., Cítero, V. A., & Mari, J. J. (2004). The mental health of graduate students at the Federal University of São Paulo: a preliminary report. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 37(10), 1519-1524. doi:10.1590/s0100-879x2004001000011Ibrahim, A. K., Kelly, S. J., Adams, C. E., & Glazebrook, C. (2013). A systematic review of studies of depression prevalence in university students. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 47(3), 391-400. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.11.015Levecque, K., Anseel, F., De Beuckelaer, A., Van der Heyden, J., & Gisle, L. (2017). Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students. Research Policy, 46(4), 868-879. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.008Zhong, J., You, J., Gan, Y., Zhang, Y., Lu, C., & Wang, H. (2009). Job Stress, Burnout, Depression Symptoms, and Physical Health among Chinese University Teachers. 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A Self-Rating Depression Scale. Archives of General Psychiatry, 12(1), 63. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1965.01720310065008Ginting, H., Näring, G., van der Veld, W. M., Srisayekti, W., & Becker, E. S. (2013). Validating the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Indonesia’s general population and coronary heart disease patients. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 13(3), 235-242. doi:10.1016/s1697-2600(13)70028-0Kojima, M., Furukawa, T. A., Takahashi, H., Kawai, M., Nagaya, T., & Tokudome, S. (2002). Cross-cultural validation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II in Japan. Psychiatry Research, 110(3), 291-299. doi:10.1016/s0165-1781(02)00106-3Kapci, E. G., Uslu, R., Turkcapar, H., & Karaoglan, A. (2008). Beck Depression Inventory II: evaluation of the psychometric properties and cut-off points in a Turkish adult population. Depression and Anxiety, 25(10), E104-E110. doi:10.1002/da.20371Aratake, Y., Tanaka, K., Wada, K., Watanabe, M., Katoh, N., Sakata, Y., & Aizawa, Y. (2007). 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COMPARISON OF GAMIFICATION TOOLS FOR EVALUATING THE ETHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY SKILLS IN SCIENCE DEGREES

In the last two years the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has implemented the evaluation of key transversal competences in its degrees. The objective is to offer an added value both for UPV s graduates and their employers. Nowadays, labour market is demanding not only professional skills but also personal and transversal competences development. However, evaluating these skills may require evaluation methods and techniques different to traditional ones. The authors have worked with gamification tools to help assessing student s performance in Ethical, environmental and professional responsibility skill. The experiences described have been developed in the frame of an Innovative Educational Project Improvement during the academic years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of two gamification applications, Socrative and Quizbean, for evaluating the above mentioned skill. Both applications can be used in the classroom with different devices such as laptops, tablets or mobile phones, and are based on creating questionnaires. These applications also share other characteristics such as high number of questions allowed, relatively high number of students in the classroom, instant results, etc. Socrative was used in Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics course in the first year of the Bachelor s degree in Biotechnology. Quizbean was used in Groundwater management subject in the fourth year of the Bachelor s degree in Environmental Sciences. To increase student motivation, game rules were included to encourage competition. The questionnaires were designed and classified according to 3 possible levels of acquisition of the key competence, these levels are fully described in a specific rubric that was explained beforehand to the students. Both applications performed successfully and the specificities of each gamification tool are described in the results. Students were satisfactorily involved in the activity, and some examples are included to show different levels of competence acquisition.The authors would like to thank the Vice-Rectorate for Studies, Quality and Acreditation of the Universitat Politècnica de València for funding the lnnovation and Educational Improvement Project A005: “Experiencia piloto de evaluación en distintas titulaciones de la UPV de la competencia transversal UPV Responsabilidad ética, medioambiental y profesional”Sebastiá-Frasquet, M.; Vargas Colás, MD.; Asensio Cuesta, S.; Pascual-Seva, N. (2016). COMPARISON OF GAMIFICATION TOOLS FOR EVALUATING THE ETHICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY SKILLS IN SCIENCE DEGREES. IATED. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016.1855

A Game-Theory method to design job rotation schedules to prevent musculoskeletal disorders Based on workers preferences and competencies

[EN] Job rotation is an organizational strategy based on the systematic exchange of workers between jobs in a planned manner according to specific criteria. This study presents the GS-Rot method, a method based on Game Theory, in order to design job rotation schedules by considering not only workers' job preferences, but also the competencies required for different jobs. With this approach, we promote workers' active participation in the design of the rotation plan. It also let us deal with restrictions in assigning workers to job positions according to their disabilities (temporal or permanent). The GS-Rot method has been implemented online and applied to a case in a work environment characterized by the presence of a high repetition of movements, which is a significant risk factor associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). A total of 17 workstations and 17 workers were involved in the rotation, four of them with physical/psychological limitations. Feasible job rotation schedules were obtained in a short time (average time 27.4 milliseconds). The results indicate that in the rotations driven by preference priorities, almost all the workers (94.11%) were assigned to one of their top five preferences. Likewise, 48.52% of job positions were assigned to workers in their top five of their competence lists. When jobs were assigned according to competence, 58.82% of workers got an assignment among their top five competence lists. Furthermore, 55.87% of the workers achieved jobs in their top five preferences. In both rotation scenarios, the workers varied performed jobs, and fatigue accumulation was balanced among them. The GS-Rot method achieved feasible and uniform solutions regarding the workers' exposure to job repetitiveness.This research was funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission under Grant 2017-1-ES01-KA203-038589 in the frame of the project CoSki21-Core Skills for 21th-century professionals.Asensio-Cuesta, S.; Garcia-Gomez, JM.; Poza-Lujan, J.; Conejero, JA. (2019). A Game-Theory method to design job rotation schedules to prevent musculoskeletal disorders Based on workers preferences and competencies. International Journal of Environmental research and Public Health. 16(23):1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234666S1161623Aptel, M., Cail, F., Gerling, A., & Louis, O. (2008). Proposal of parameters to implement a workstation rotation system to protect against MSDs. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 38(11-12), 900-909. doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2008.02.006Jeon, I. S., Jeong, B. Y., & Jeong, J. H. (2016). Preferred 11 different job rotation types in automotive company and their effects on productivity, quality and musculoskeletal disorders: comparison between subjective and actual scores by workers’ age. Ergonomics, 59(10), 1318-1326. doi:10.1080/00140139.2016.1140816Botti, L., Mora, C., & Calzavara, M. (2017). Design of job rotation schedules managing the exposure to age-related risk factors. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 13993-13997. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2420Sixth European Working Conditions Survey-6th EWCS-Spainhttps://www.eurofound.europa.eu/surveys/european-working-conditions-surveys/sixth-european-working-conditions-survey-2015/ewcs-2015-methodologyAsensio-Cuesta, S., Diego-Mas, J. A., Canós-Darós, L., & Andrés-Romano, C. (2011). A genetic algorithm for the design of job rotation schedules considering ergonomic and competence criteria. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 60(9-12), 1161-1174. doi:10.1007/s00170-011-3672-0Yoon, S.-Y., Ko, J., & Jung, M.-C. (2016). A model for developing job rotation schedules that eliminate sequential high workloads and minimize between-worker variability in cumulative daily workloads: Application to automotive assembly lines. Applied Ergonomics, 55, 8-15. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2016.01.011Otto, A., & Scholl, A. (2012). Reducing ergonomic risks by job rotation scheduling. OR Spectrum, 35(3), 711-733. doi:10.1007/s00291-012-0291-6Carnahan, B. J., Redfern, M. S., & Norman, B. (2000). Designing safe job rotation schedules using optimization and heuristic search. Ergonomics, 43(4), 543-560. doi:10.1080/001401300184404Song, J., Lee, C., Lee, W., Bahn, S., Jung, C., & Yun, M. H. (2016). Development of a job rotation scheduling algorithm for minimizing accumulated work load per body parts. 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A user-centered chatbot to identify and interconnect individual, social and environmental risk factors related to overweight and obesity

[EN] The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of using a user-centered chatbotfor collecting linked data to study overweight and obesity causes ina target population. In total 980 people participated in the feasibility study organized in three studies: (1) within a group of university students (88 participants), (2) in a small town (422 participants), and (3) within a university community (470 participants). We gathered self-reported data through the Wakamola chatbot regarding participants diet, physical activity, social network, living area, obesity-associated diseases, and sociodemographic data. For each study, we calculated the mean Body Mass Index (BMI) and number of people in each BMI level. Also, we defined and calculated scores (1-100 scale) regarding global health, BMI, alimentation, physical activity and social network. Moreover, we graphically represented obesity risk for living areas and the social network with nodes colored by BMI. Students group results: Mean BMI 21.37 (SD 2.57) (normal weight), 8 people underweight, 5 overweight, 0 obesity, global health status 78.21, alimentation 63.64, physical activity 65.08 and social 26.54, 3 areas with mean BMI level of obesity, 17 with overweight level. Small town ' s study results: Mean BMI 25.66 (SD 4.29) (overweight), 2 people underweight, 63 overweight, 26 obesity, global health status 69.42, alimentation 64.60, physical activity 60.61 and social 1.14, 1 area with mean BMI in normal weight; University ' s study results: Mean BMI 23.63 (SD 3.7) (normal weight), 22 people underweight, 86 overweight, 28 obesity, global health status 81.03, alimentation 81.84, physical activity 70.01 and social 1.47, 3 areas in obesity level, 19 in overweight level. Wakamola is a health care chatbot useful to collect relevant data from populations in the risk of overweight and obesity. Besides, the chatbot provides individual self-assessment of BMI and general status regarding the style of living. Moreover, Wakamola connects users in a social network to help the study of O & O ' s causes from an individual, social and socio-economic perspective.Funding for this study was provided by the authors' various departments, and partially by the Crowd Health Project (Collective Wisdom Driving Public Health Policies [727560]).Asensio-Cuesta, S.; Blanes-Selva, V.; Conejero, JA.; Portolés, M.; Garcia-Gomez, JM. (2022). A user-centered chatbot to identify and interconnect individual, social and environmental risk factors related to overweight and obesity. Informatics for Health and Social Care. 47(1):38-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538157.2021.1923501385247

User-centred design of a clinical decision support system for palliative care: Insights from healthcare professionals

[EN] Objective:Although clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have many benefits for clinical practice, they also have several barriers to their acceptance by professionals. Our objective in this study was to design and validate The Aleph palliative care (PC) CDSS through a user-centred method, considering the predictions of the artificial intelligence (AI) core, usability and user experience (UX). Methods:We performed two rounds of individual evaluation sessions with potential users. Each session included a model evaluation, a task test and a usability and UX assessment. Results:The machine learning (ML) predictive models outperformed the participants in the three predictive tasks. System Usability Scale (SUS) reported 62.7 +/- 14.1 and 65 +/- 26.2 on a 100-point rating scale for both rounds, respectively, while User Experience Questionnaire - Short Version (UEQ-S) scores were 1.42 and 1.5 on the -3 to 3 scale. Conclusions:The think-aloud method and including the UX dimension helped us to identify most of the workflow implementation issues. The system has good UX hedonic qualities; participants were interested in the tool and responded positively to it. Performance regarding usability was modest but acceptable.The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the InAdvance project (H2020-SC1-BHC-2018¿2020 grant number 825750) and the CANCERLESS project (H2020-SC1-2020-Single-Stage-RTD grant number 965351), both funded by the European Union¿s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Also, it was partially supported by the ALBATROSS project (National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017¿ 2020, grant number PID2019-104978RB-I00)Blanes-Selva, V.; Asensio-Cuesta, S.; Doñate-Martínez, A.; Pereira Mesquita, F.; Garcia-Gomez, JM. (2023). User-centred design of a clinical decision support system for palliative care: Insights from healthcare professionals. Digital Health. 9:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221150735113

Job rotation as a method for disabled workers integration

[ES] La Rotación de Puestos de Trabajo permite la variación de las tareas llevadas a cabo por los trabajadores y el tiempo empleado en cada una de ellas, facilitando la alternancia de los grupos musculares utilizados y la incorporación progresiva de trabajadores con problemas músculo-esqueléticos. Con la rotación es posible asignar a los trabajadores limitados a puestos compatibles con sus capacidades y restringir el tiempo que se exponen a factores de riesgo a los que son especialmente sensibles.Este trabajo presenta la aplicación del algoritmo DPI-ASEPEYO al diseño de agendas de RPT para prevenir los trastornos músculo-esqueléticos e integrar a trabajadores con limitaciones físicas, psíquicas o de comunicación en entornos de trabajo caracterizados por una elevada repetitividad de movimientos, como ocurre, por ejemplo, en las líneas de ensamblaje.[EN] Job rotation allows workers to vary their tasks and the time employed in each one of them, facilitating the change of the muscular groups used and the progressive incorporation of workers with musculoskeletal disorders. With the job rotation is possible to assign workers to workstations compatible with their limited capacities and to restrict the time that they are exposed to risk factors to which they are especially sensible. This paper presents the application of DPI-ASEPEYO algorithm, to the design of Job Rotation schedules to prevent musculoskeletal disorders and to integrate workers with physical, psychic or communication limitations in environs characterized by high repetitive movements as it happens, for example, in assembly lines.Agradecemos a la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia su apoyo a esta investigación a través de su Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación y Desarrollo 2009 y su financiación a través de los proyectos PAID-06-09/2902 y PAID-05-09/4215.Asensio Cuesta, S.; Diego-Mas, JA.; González-Cruz, MC. (2011). La rotación de puestos de trabajo como medio para la integración de trabajadores con discapacidad. DYNA: Ingeniería e Industria. 86(3):350-360. https://doi.org/10.6036/3863S35036086

Smartphone sensors for monitoring cancer-related Quality of Life: App design, EORTC QLQ-C30 mapping and feasibility study in healthy subjects

[EN] Quality of life (QoL) indicators are now being adopted as clinical outcomes in clinical trials on cancer treatments. Technology-free daily monitoring of patients is complicated, time-consuming and expensive due to the need for vast amounts of resources and personnel. The alternative method of using the patients¿ own phones could reduce the burden of continuous monitoring of cancer patients in clinical trials. This paper proposes monitoring the patients¿ QoL by gathering data from their own phones. We considered that the continuous multiparametric acquisition of movement, location, phone calls, conversations and data use could be employed to simultaneously monitor their physical, psychological, social and environmental aspects. An open access phone app was developed (Human Dynamics Reporting Service (HDRS)) to implement this approach. We here propose a novel mapping between the standardized QoL items for these patients, the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) and define HDRS monitoring indicators. A pilot study with university volunteers verified the plausibility of detecting human activity indicators directly related to QoL.Funding for this study was provided by the authors' various departments, and partially by the CrowdHealth Project (Collective Wisdom Driving Public Health Policies (727560)) and the MTS4up project (DPI2016-80054-R).Asensio Cuesta, S.; Sánchez-García, Á.; Conejero, JA.; Sáez Silvestre, C.; Rivero-Rodriguez, A.; Garcia-Gomez, JM. (2019). Smartphone sensors for monitoring cancer-related Quality of Life: App design, EORTC QLQ-C30 mapping and feasibility study in healthy subjects. 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