Quantifying and predicting mental illness severity in online pro-eating disorder communities

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

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 1171-1184

  Chancellor, Stevie ^a   Lin, Zhiyuan Jerry ^a   Goodman, Erica L ^b   Zerwas, Stephanie ^c   De Choudhury, Munmun ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating disorder; Instagram; Mental health; Mental illness; Selfinjury; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; FORECASTING; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EATING DISORDERS; INSTAGRAM; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL ILLNESS; SELFINJURY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISEASES;

EID: 84963593337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2819973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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