Objective Social media is a potentially engaging way to support adolescents and young
adults in maintaining healthy diets and learning about nutrition. This review identifies …

Motivated by the need to better manage energy demand in the home, in this paper we
advocate the integration into Ubicomp systems of interactive energy consumption …

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 …

Advances in mobile computing offer the potential to change when, where, and how health
interventions are delivered. Rather than relying on occasional in-clinic interactions, mobile …

Abstract Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers are increasingly examining how
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help people eat more healthfully …

We describe the design and evaluation of POND, a Pattern-Oriented Nutrition Diary. POND
is a mobile-phone food diary designed using a theory-driven approach to address a …

This exploratory study examines student tagging activity within a five-week social
bookmarking unit. Students in six sections of a course were tasked with locating, tagging …

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

Portion size estimation is important for managing dietary intake in many chronic conditions.
We conducted a 6-week field study with nine varying literacy dialysis patients to explore the …

Over the past 30 years, an increasing proportion of communication has occurred over the
Internet, using a wide array of new technologies including video conferencing, audio …