HealthSeeker featured on "Social Games that Sway Behavior" in MIT's Technology Review magazine

Very excited about this article!!

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26413/?p1=A5


Can your social network make you healthier? It's a question that health organizations are asking more and more--as part of a wave of new gaming experiments that aim to persuade players to think and act differently while having fun.

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"The game is an ongoing exploration for each player," adds Manny Hernandez, cofounder and president of the Diabetes Hand Foundation, a nonprofit social-media group that worked with Ayogo and the Joslin Diabetes Center to develop the game. "We hope that through that it can become a very strong source of support for the player," he says. So far, more than 3,000 people have signed up.

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on October 4, 2010 at 11:13pm
Wonderful article. Congratulations!

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