Descriptive analysis of physical activity conversations on twitter

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1555-1560

  Kendall, Logan ^a   Hartzler, Andrea ^a   Klasnja, Predrag V ^a   Pratt, Wanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro blog; Physical activity; Social networks; Technology mediated social participation; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; LEARN+; MICRO-BLOG; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SUPPORTIVE TOOLS; TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TWITTER;

HEALTH;

EID: 79957953190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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