ICT4H: SOCIAL MEDIA
AGENTS & AVATARS
A CHROME BROWSER EXTENSION TO
ENCOURAGE HEALTHY “SUN-CARE”
Leslie Wu & Neema Moraveji
http://glyph.stanford.edu/coach

Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny
cc-by http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixe/

Facebook has got you dialed in.
Could we build atop this platform of attention to help
encourage Vitamin D intake & 15 minutes of Sun?
img src=http://carenhuman.co.za/how-to-stop-that-facebook-addiction/

EVERYONE NEEDS A COACH

EVERYONE NEEDS A COACH

RE-TWEET?

HTTP://GLYPH.STANFORD.EDU/COACH/
Install it now on Google Chrome!

http://habits.stanford.edu/
INSPIRATION?
“new tools -- including mobile and
social technologies -- can help people
form new habits in their lives.”
- BJ Fogg

RESULTS?
Dozens of installs per day (word of mouth / Twitter only)
Okay, so we’re still gathering data. The chart above is a
placeholder... come back soon =)
Our friends use it, will you “bee” my Health Coach friend?

http://bit.ly/SVHealthCoach

THORNY ISSUES
Privacy--who tracks who?
Security--this extension can do what now?
Legal--can has terms of service?
Kairos--do we really check Facebook right before we go
outside?
Technology--how many Google Chrome Facebook Health
Hackers are there, really?

Takeaways
1) Piggyback on existing triggers/media
Text
2) Leverage the social tech “re-tweet”
3) Is this the “Agent” / Avatar 2.0?
4) There is so far still to go....