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Motivating change with mobile: seven guidelines

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This forum is dedicated to personal health in all its many facets: decision-making, goal setting, celebration, discovery, reflection, coordination---even entertainment. We'll look at innovations in interactive technologies and how they help address current critical healthcare challenges. Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Editor

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cover image Interactions
Interactions  Volume 19, Issue 3
May + June 2012
89 pages
ISSN:1072-5520
EISSN:1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/2168931
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