DIYgenomics crowdsourced health research studies: Personal wellness and preventive medicine through collective intelligence

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-12-05, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-59

  Swan, Melanie ^a,b  

^a MS Futures Group   (United States)

^b DIYgenomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; COMMUNITY COMPUTING; DATA STREAM; DATA VOLUME; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH RESEARCH; INTERVENTIONAL; METABOLOMICS; MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION; PERSONAL HEALTH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINES; SELF-TRACKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRACKING DEVICES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICINE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84864985829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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