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Managing health with mobile technology

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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 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 21, Issue 1
            January - February 2014
            73 pages
            ISSN:1072-5520
            EISSN:1558-3449
            DOI:10.1145/2540069
            • Editors:
            • Ron Wakkary,
            • Erik Stolterman
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