UP health: Ubiquitously persuasive health promotion with an instant messaging system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2663-2668

  Sohn, Misook ^a   Lee, Jeunwoo ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Instant messaging (IM); Motivation; Persuasive technology; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

HEALTH PROMOTION; INSTANT MESSAGING (IM); PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 35348906741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240866.1241059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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