As HCI researchers have designed tools to promote wellness, disease has often been
approached as a general problem. In contrast, public health research argues for an activist …

HCI researchers have increasingly examined how social context shapes health behaviors.
Much of this work operates at the interpersonal level. Communities such as churches play …

Previous work has examined how technology can support health behavior monitoring in
social contexts. These tools incentivize behavior documentation through the promise of …

Most mobile technology systems designed to encourage healthy decisions focus on
prescriptive persuasion, telling the user either implicitly or explicitly what to do, as the …

Technology-based interventions for promoting health behavior-change frequently leverage
multiplayer game mechanics such as group-based competitions. However, health …

Culturally relevant health information is said to benefit diverse populations and is critical for
health dissemination and user experience creation. Social media and online content provide …

Researchers have designed a variety of systems that promote wellness. However, little work
has been done to examine how casual mobile games can help adults learn how to live …

New technologies for encouraging physical activity, healthy diet, and other types of health
behavior change now frequently appear in the HCI literature. Yet, how such technologies …

As the rates of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease continue to
rise, the development of effective tools that can help people adopt and sustain healthier …

Over the last ten years, HCI researchers have introduced a range of novel ways to support
health behavior change, from glanceable displays to sophisticated game dynamics. Yet, this …