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3 Next-Gen Apps for the Stressed-Out Urbanite
Too busy to worry about little things like "health" or "pedestrian safety"? Your smartphone is on it.
Life in the city can get pretty stressful, and sometimes we're just too distracted to remember the little things — "long-term health," for instance, or "pedestrian safety" or "general well-being."
Fortunately there are three new apps designed to do that for us. In the latest issue of Pervasive Computing, a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, computer scientists Andrew Campbell of Dartmouth and Tanzeem Choudhury of Cornell describe the programs, which they helped to develop. The apps aren't exclusively for city use, but they seem tailor made for that urbanite caught up in the modern "busy trap."