Abstract
Health interventions aim to influence behavior by
creating healthy habits that substitute existing
unhealthy ones. Habits are often deeply ingrained but
also easily disrupted in new situations. This makes
changing habits a life-long learning and adaptation
process rather than a one-time task of limited duration.
Therefore, applying modern understanding of learning
could be fruitful in designing effective and sustainable
health interventions. This paper presents the initial
design framework for interventions based on learning
theories, and also introduces a mobile habit change
application. The application guides the user in habit
formation through small daily changes, supported by a
user-selectable cartoonish avatar with varied styles of
dialogue.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2014) |
| Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| Pages | 801-804 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4799-2131-7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 1 Jun 2014 → 4 Jun 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014 |
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| Abbreviated title | BHI 2014 |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Valencia |
| Period | 1/06/14 → 4/06/14 |
Keywords
- mobile intervention
- habit change
- learning theories
- design framework
- behavior change
- health