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June 19, 2007
7 Categories of Mobile Texting for Health
Last week our lab members looked at how texting on mobile phones can be used to promote health. As it turns out, we decided that all the examples we found fit into seven categories.
1. Remind you to do health behavior
2. Collect data from you
3. Offer you words of inspiration
4. Keep you on schedule/routine
5. Alert you to health issue or crisis
6. Send you lab results
7. Give you health info on demand
Our next step is exploring texting for health in other countries and languages. If you know of some examples that don't fit into the categories above, let us know.
Posted by BJ Fogg at June 19, 2007 02:51 PM