Happier together: Integrating a wellness application into a social network site

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6137 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 27-39

  Munson, Sean A ^a   Lauterbach, Debra ^a   Newman, Mark W ^a   Resnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

audience; design; positive psychology; privacy; sharing; Social software; wellness

Indexed keywords

AUDIENCE DESIGN; FACEBOOK; HEALTH AND WELLNESS; INTERNET BASED; NEWSFEEDS; POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WELLNESS APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TECHNOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DESIGN;

EID: 77954631916     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13226-1_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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