TY - GEN
T1 - Personalized behavior change support for disease prevention
AU - Kaipainen, Kirsikka
AU - Honka, Anita
AU - Saranummi, Niilo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Healthy lifestyle is essential in prevention of chronic diseases. However, people need motivation and support to achieve and to maintain behavior changes. Moreover, effective behavior change support should be personalized to individual's unique characteristics, needs and context. This paper presents a blueprint of an ICT system, which is able to provide holistic, dynamic support for healthy behaviors, engaging also various co-producers in the health journey of a person. Three main concepts in the system are Virtual Individual, which maintains the user's personal profile, PGS-Mall, which collects various health and well-being services into one place, and HealthGuides, which support healthy choices in everyday life and coordinate the interactions between the user, the system, and other co-producers of health.
AB - Healthy lifestyle is essential in prevention of chronic diseases. However, people need motivation and support to achieve and to maintain behavior changes. Moreover, effective behavior change support should be personalized to individual's unique characteristics, needs and context. This paper presents a blueprint of an ICT system, which is able to provide holistic, dynamic support for healthy behaviors, engaging also various co-producers in the health journey of a person. Three main concepts in the system are Virtual Individual, which maintains the user's personal profile, PGS-Mall, which collects various health and well-being services into one place, and HealthGuides, which support healthy choices in everyday life and coordinate the interactions between the user, the system, and other co-producers of health.
KW - Chronic Disease/prevention & control
KW - Health Promotion/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Internet
KW - Patient Education as Topic/methods
KW - Precision Medicine/methods
KW - Risk Reduction Behavior
KW - Software
KW - Therapy, Computer-Assisted/methods
KW - User-Computer Interface
U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090196
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090196
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
C2 - 22254451
SN - 978-1-4244-4121-1
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
SP - 880
EP - 883
BT - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS Boston, Massachusetts USA, August 30 - September 3, 2011
PB - IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
T2 - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Y2 - 30 August 2011 through 3 September 2011
ER -