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Chick clique: persuasive technology to motivate teenage girls to exercise
Tammy Toscos,Anne M. Faber,Shunying An,Mona Praful Gandhi +3 more
- pp 1873-1878
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The intent of Chick Clique is to provide information at opportune times in order to modify the behaviors of girls and ultimately lead to improved health habits.Abstract:
We are developing a preventative health cell phone application that helps motivate teenage girls to exercise by exploiting their social desire to stay connected with their peers. We targeted girls because they are more likely to become less active throughout adolescence and are more likely to use dangerous techniques for losing weight. The intent of Chick Clique is to provide information at opportune times in order to modify the behaviors of girls and ultimately lead to improved health habits. Our study investigated how collecting, sharing and comparing personal fitness information impacts activity level and health awareness.read more
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Technologies for Wellbeing and Healthy Living: Perspectives and Challenges
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The Influence of Message Framing on Engagement with a Mobile Application for Motivating Exercise
Abstract: Mobile phone personal health monitoring software is designed to help people monitor and change their behavior. Exercise applications may measure heart rate, temperature, distance traveled, and movement. Although some of these programs incorporate behavioral theories to motivate engagement and behavior change, it is not yet clear that the devices can maintain engagement long term for individuals who are not strongly inclined to exercise already. If people do not use health apps for long periods of time weeks, months or years instead of days there are unlikely to be long-term health benefits. This paper describes a new mobile health application designed to motivate exercise via brisk walking: MyWalk. MyWalk delivers timely, tailored feedback messages intended to persuade additional brisk walking. An experiment was conducted to explore how message framing impacts application usage using participants who downloaded the application from an online app store. Author
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TL;DR: Factors that impact home users' reported computer security in the home are examined to help identify computer users who are prone to act insecurely.
Motivating Children to Increase Physical Activity by Means of Reward
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Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
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Persuasive technology : using computers to change what we think and do
TL;DR: Fogg has coined the phrase Captology (an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capture the domain of research, design, and applications of persuasive computers as mentioned in this paper, and has revealed how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people's attitudes and behavior.
Reducing Obesity via a School-Based Interdisciplinary Intervention Among Youth
Steven L. Gortmaker,Karen E. Peterson,Jean L. Wiecha,Arthur M. Sobol,Sujata Dixit,Mary Kay Fox,Nan M. Laird +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, Planet Health sessions were included within existing curricula using classroom teachers in 4 major subjects and physical education, focusing on decreasing television viewing, decreasing consumption of high-fat foods, increasing fruit and vegetable intake, and increasing moderate and vigorous physical activity.
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Reducing obesity via a school-based interdisciplinary intervention among youth: Planet Health
Steven L. Gortmaker,Karen E. Peterson,Jean L. Wiecha,Arthur M. Sobol,Sujata Dixit,Sujata Dixit,Mary Kay Fox,Nan M. Laird +7 more
TL;DR: Planet Health decreased obesity among female students, indicating a promising school-based approach to reducing obesity among youth.