Finding a balance: Social support v. privacy during weight-management

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3015-3020

  Maitland, Julie ^a   Chalmers, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural change; Health; Obesity; Social support

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; CURRENT SYSTEMS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES; PRELIMINARY DESIGNS; SHARING INFORMATIONS; SOCIAL INFLUENCES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORTS; SYSTEM DESIGNS;

DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NUTRITION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049125136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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