The work of play: Supporting a pervasive health behavior change intervention for US middle school students

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 897-900

  Miller, Andrew ^a   Poole, Erika ^b   Xu, Yan ^a   Eiriksdottir, Elsa ^c   Kestranek, Daniel ^b   Catrambone, Richard ^c   Mynatt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

articulation work; children; health informatics; longitudinal study; pedometers; wellness

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; HEALTH INFORMATICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PEDOMETERS; WELLNESS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HEALTH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84863272198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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