Facebook for health: Opportunities and challenges for driving behavior change

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 443-446

  Morris, Margaret E ^a   Consolvo, Sunny ^a   Munson, Sean A ^b   Kramer, Adam D I ^c   Patrick, Kevin ^d   Tsai, Janice ^e  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c FACEBOOK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal setting; Health; Social networks; Wellness

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; DESIGN INNOVATIONS; DRIVING BEHAVIOUR; FACEBOOK; GOAL-SETTING; HEALTH BEHAVIORS; MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL NORM; WELLNESS;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 79957962270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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