Automated Indexing of Internet Stories for Health Behavior Change: Weight Loss Attitude Pilot Study
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Indexing Stories for Conversational Health Interventions
Personal stories encoding health information are an effective tool for promoting health behavior change. As millions of stories about health are accumulated daily in blogs and in social networks online there is an opportunity to harvest and index a large database of health stories for interventions. We envision such a database increasing user education, engagement, motivation and rapport in our...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Internet Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1438-8871
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3702