Emerging technologies: webcams and crowd-sourcing to identify active transportation.

PA behaviors and the ability to eliminate researcher and respondent bias in assessing post-change environments. A novel transdisciplinary collaboration between public health and computer science is presented here with the goal of automatically analyzing existing public data feeds in innovative ways to quantify BE intervention effectiveness.

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