HealthyTogether: Exploring social incentives for mobile fitness applications

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 25-34

  Chen, Yu ^a   Pu, Pearl ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

competition; cooperation; gamification; group interaction; health; mobile fitness applications

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HEALTH;

COOPERATION; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; GAMIFICATION; GROUP INTERACTION; MOBILE GAMES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; USER STUDY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84903638814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2592235.2592240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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