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Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs

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Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs. / Chung, Chia-Fang; Jensen, Nanna Gorm; Shklovski, Irina; Munson, Sean.

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '17. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 4875-4886 (ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)).

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Chung, C-F, Jensen, NG, Shklovski, I & Munson, S 2017, Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs. in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '17. Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 4875-4886. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025510

APA

Chung, C-F., Jensen, N. G., Shklovski, I., & Munson, S. (2017). Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '17 (pp. 4875-4886). Association for Computing Machinery. ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025510

Vancouver

Chung C-F, Jensen NG, Shklovski I, Munson S. Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '17. Association for Computing Machinery. 2017. p. 4875-4886. (ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025510

Author

Chung, Chia-Fang ; Jensen, Nanna Gorm ; Shklovski, Irina ; Munson, Sean. / Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '17. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 4875-4886 (ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)).

Bibtex

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