{"229841":{"#nid":"229841","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: Andrew Miller","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Miller\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022Theory Meets Reality: Motivating Physical Activity in Adolescents Using Social Media\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECan social media help reduce adolescent obesity? Theories of social behavior change suggest social media could play a key role in fostering a \u0027new normal\u0027 around everyday fitness behaviors. Over the last several years, I\u0027ve been studying how social computing technologies can affect everyday health behaviors. In this talk, I\u0027ll present the design, development and deployment of StepStream, a social pervasive health system for middle school students to share and encourage everyday fitness activity. StepStream is a multi-week pervasive health deployment consisting of an after school program, wireless pedometers and a social network site. I\u0027ve used it to better understand how online social activity can motivate offline health behaviors in youth. In this talk, I\u0027ll show I designed the system in collaboration with students from a local participating school, and the lessons I\u0027ve learned from this project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Miller (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.andrewmiller.net\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.andrewmiller.net\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.andrewmiller.net\u003C\/a\u003E) is a PhD Candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. With his advisor, Professor Elizabeth Mynatt, Andrew studies how social computing technologies can affect everyday health behaviors. He was recognized by the GVU as a 2012 Foley Scholar, and his most recent publication \u0022Design Strategies for Youth-Focused Pervasive Social Health Games\u0022 won Best Student Paper at Pervasive Health 2013. Andrew holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Occidental College, and an MS-HCI from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2013-08-19 14:55:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:24:01","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-12-05T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-12-05T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-12-05T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-12-05 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-12-05 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-12-05 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"256471":{"id":"256471","type":"image","title":"Andrew Miller","body":null,"created":"1449243846","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:44:06","changed":"1475894936","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:56","alt":"Andrew Miller","file":{"fid":"198226","name":"miller2012.jpg_0.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/miller2012.jpg_0_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/miller2012.jpg_0_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":437089,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/miller2012.jpg_0_0.jpeg?itok=zWKG6DEs"}}},"media_ids":["256471"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}