Social sensing: Obesity, unhealthy eating and exercise in face-to-face networks

What is the role of face-to-face interactions in the diffusion of health-related behaviors- diet choices, exercise habits, and long-term weight changes? We use co-location and communication sensors in mass-market mobile phones to model the diffusion of health-related behaviors via face-to-face inter...

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Main Authors: Madan, Anmol Prem Prakash, Moturu, Sai T., Lazer, David, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65376
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983