Investigating Web search strategies and forum use to support diet and weight loss

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3829-3834

  Schraefel, M C ^a   White, Ryen W ^b   André, Paul ^a   Tan, Desney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Forums; Obesity; Web search; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

DIET; FORUMS; OBESITY; WEB SEARCH; WEIGHT LOSS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ECOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NUTRITION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70349173082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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