How gamification affects physical activity: Large-scale analysis of walking challenges in a mobile application

26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, WWW 2017 Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 455-463

  Shameli, Ali ^a   Althoff, Tim ^a   Saberi, Amin ^a   Leskovec, Jure ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMIFICATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; HEALTHY LIFESTYLES; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STATISTICAL MODELING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85060298645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3054172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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