Mechanical Turk

By  Jonah Comstock 12:02 pm August 4, 2015
A new app, developed at the interaction design lab at Cornell University, has a novel approach to helping users lose weight: an algorithm that latches onto the healthy behaviors users are already doing and then gradually encourages them to do more of the same. The app is called MyBehavior, and it's set to launch in the Google Play store in September. The research team already did a 14-week study...