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Interactive systems for health

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

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cover image Interactions
Interactions  Volume 20, Issue 3
May + June 2013
84 pages
ISSN:1072-5520
EISSN:1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/2451856
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Published: 01 May 2013
Published in INTERACTIONS Volume 20, Issue 3

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  • (2014)Intimate careProceedings of the 2014 companion publication on Designing interactive systems10.1145/2598784.2602768(5-8)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2014

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