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"the crowd keeps me in shape": social psychology and the present and future of health social machines

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Daniel A. Smith,

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WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 927 - 932

https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488082

Published: 13 May 2013 Publication History

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Can the Web help people live healthier lives? This paper seeks to answer this question through an examination of sites, apps and online communities designed to help people improve their fitness, better manage their disease(s) and conditions, and to solve the often elusive connections between the symptoms they experience, diseases and treatments. These health social machines employ a combination of both simple and complex social and computational processes to provide such support. We first provide a descriptive classification of the kinds of machines currently available, and the support each class offers. We then describe the limitations exhibited by these systems and potential ways around them, towards the design of more effective machines in the future.

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"the crowd keeps me in shape": social psychology and the present and future of health social machines
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2013

1636 pages

ISBN:9781450320382

DOI:10.1145/2487788

General Chairs:
Daniel Schwabe
PUC-Rio - Brazil
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Virgílio Almeida
UFMG - Brazil
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Hartmut Glaser
CGI.br - Brazil
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Labs - Spain & Chile
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Sue Moon
KAIST - South Korea

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