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CHI Highlights: Persuasive Tech and Social Software for Health and Wellness

I want to take few minutes to highlight a few papers from CHI 2011, spread across a couple of posts. There was lots of good work at this conference. This post will focus on papers in the persuasive technology and social software for health and wellness space, which is the aspect of my work that [...]

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2011 05 15 research
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@display

For those interested in the software that drives the SIDisplay, SI master’s student Morgan Keys has been working to make a generalized and improved version available. You can find it, under the name “@display” at this GitHub repository. SIDisplay is a Twitter-based public display described in a CSCW paper with Paul Resnick and Emily Rosengren. [...]

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2011 04 01 research
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Word clouds to support reflection

When preparing our Persuasive 2010 paper on Three Good Things, we ended up cutting a section on using word clouds to support reflection. The section wasn’t central to this paper, but it highlights one of the design challenges we encountered, and so I want to share it and take advantage of any feedback. Our Three [...]

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2010 05 04 research Comments (2)

three good things

The first of my social software for wellness applications is available on Facebook (info page). Three Good Things supports a positive psychology exercise in which participants record three good things, and why these things happened. When completed daily – even on the bad days – over time, participants report increased happiness and decreased symptoms of [...]

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2009 07 20 research
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social sites repurposing contacts

A month or so ago, Cory Doctorow wrote a column about how your “creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook,” and introduced what he calls “boyd’s law:” Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance. I think there’s an important corollary: adding more features and [...]

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2008 01 07 design
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openid and social networks

As an ischool student, I like to see what folks at other ischools are thinking about, and I had experimented some with claimid in the fall. In the developers’ own words, One of the greatest things about having a claimID page is that you can easily provide people searching for you with a real picture [...]

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2007 03 23 identity Comments (0)

you will know me by my consumption

Sam Anderson’s article “Judging Your Friends by their Netflix Queue” made it onto a few blogs and the like over the past week, often with comments along the lines of “This article is totally true.” Anderson describes his initial reaction: When I first started looking at my friends’ Netflix lists, it felt a little creepy. [...]

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2006 09 25 collections
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