Social sensing: Obesity, unhealthy eating and exercise in face-to-face networks

Proceedings - Wireless Health 2010, WH'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 104-110

  Madan, Anmol ^a   Moturu, Sai T ^a,b   Lazer, David ^c   Pentland, Alex ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IEEE STANDARDS;

EXERCISE HABITS; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; HEALTH BEHAVIORS; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; RESIDENCE HALL; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL SENSING;

HEALTH;

EID: 79951621299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1921081.1921094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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