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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)In Pursuit of Theoretical Ground in Health 2.0 Behavior Change Support Systems: Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Communication in a Health-Related Online Community Background: In most prior research involving online communities, the focus has been on examining network structure to understand mechanisms underlying behavior change. Content analysis of the messages exchanged in these communities has been limited to the "social support" perspective. However, existing behavior change theories suggest that message content plays a prominent role reflecting several socio-cognitive factors (including and beyond social support) affecting an individual’s efforts... Environmental Design for Communities to Expand the Social Interaction Paradigm: A Merger of Data, Technologies, and Theories Background: The evolution of mobile technologies and online communities as the vehicles for health-related communication, decision-making, and dissemination has been astonishing. Several applications and products have been designed using these two technologies independently for improving and motivating positive changes in health. Yet, the adoption and use of such systems has been less than effective as expected. Possible causes for early technology abandonment may be caused by a failure to un... Full Paper PublicationsJournal of Medical Internet ResearchIn Pursuit of Theoretical Ground in Behavior Change Support Systems: Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Communication in a Health-Related Online Community Published WithThis user's work may be related toPrivacy settings prevent us from displaying this information. |
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