John P. Pollak

TL;DR: PAM, the Photographic Affect Meter, a novel tool for measuring affect in which users select from a wide variety of photos the one which best suits their current mood, demonstrates strong construct validity across two studies and is very well suited for frequent sampling in context.

TL;DR: Time to Eat, a mobile-phone-based game, motivates children to practice healthy eating habits by letting them care for a virtual pet whose healthiness determines the game's outcome.

TL;DR: It is suggested that open-ended social awareness, making users aware of both others' and their own decisions, may also serve as an effective central design principle for mobile health.

TL;DR: Yum-me as mentioned in this paper is a personalized meal recommender system designed to meet individuals' nutritional expectations, dietary restrictions, and fine-grained food preferences, which enables a simple and accurate food preference profiling procedure via a visual quiz-based user interface and projects the learned profile into the domain of nutritionally appropriate food options to find ones that will appeal to the user.

TL;DR: PMx provides tools for optimal demographic and genetic management of populations of wildlife species, rare domestic breeds, and other populations for which the primary goal is to conserve genetic diversity, and it is being implemented as the primary pedigree management tool for the breeding programmes of zoo associations around the world.