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=Welcome to the wiki for the SMART Project at UCSD=

Using Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Promote Improved Health Behaviors
====SMART, Social/Mobile Approach to Reduce Weight, is a 5-year research project funded by NIH's National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). SMART is one of a family of projects funded by NHLBI that is exploring how to prevent and/or reduce weight gain in young adults that leads to obesity in middle age.==== ====SMART research will explore the use of applications that leverage mobile phone applications as well as applications on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. With a primary aim of weight outcomes at 2 years post-onset, one of the research challenges will be to keep intervention elements appealing and fun for users.==== ====Collaborating with CWPHS, are researchers at Stanford University, led by Tom Robinson, and include BJ Fogg's Persuasive Technology group. We have also engaged corporate research partners at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto and Qualcomm. CWPHS serves as the resource coordinating center for the overall family of seven projects in this initiative.====

Graduate Students: Laura Pina, Priti Aghera, Ernesto Ramirez
This wiki is managed by Ernesto Ramirez.