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HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change
An important question in behavioral epidemiology and public health is to understand how individual behavior is affected by illness and stress. Although changes in individual behav...
Anmol Madan, Manuel Cebrián, David Lazer, A...
WH
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Social sensing: obesity, unhealthy eating and exercise in face-to-face networks
What is the role of face-to-face interactions in the diffusion of health-related behaviors- diet choices, exercise habits, and long-term weight changes? We use co-location and com...
Anmol Madan, Sai T. Moturu, David Lazer, Alex Pent...
HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
What Would Jiminy Cricket Do? Lessons from the First Social Wearable
Work towards the development of a “wearable conscience” that helps individuals make healthy decisions in their everyday lives is described. To be effective, such a system must ...
Timothy W. Bickmore
VR
2009
IEEE
164views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking
This paper proposes virtual social perspective-taking (VSP). In VSP, users are immersed in an experience of another person to aid in understanding the person’s perspective. User...
Andrew Raij, Aaron Kotranza, D. Scott Lind, Benjam...
CSCW
2011
ACM
12 years 12 months ago
Creating a context of trust with ICTs: restoring a sense of normalcy in the environment
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of the technology-enabled behavior that took place amongst a citizen population living in a conflict zone. We interviewed 65 Iraqi citi...
Bryan Semaan, Gloria Mark