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Design Challenges and Guidelines for Persuasive Technologies that Facilitate Healthy Lifestyles.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Many diseases and health risks are the result of unhealthy lifestyles and technology could be used as an intervention. However, designing healthy lifestyle technologies is challenging, as the technology should be able to influence user behavior. In this case study, the design and evaluation process of a persuasive healthy lifestyle assistance technology was investigated. The iterative design and evaluation process included: contextual inquiry, storyboarding, concept generation, paper prototyping, video prototyping, interactive prototyping and user testing. Several design challenges are identified and guidelines are described for designing a technological intervention to encourage healthy lifestyles.

Source: PubMed

Authors: Jie Xu, Ping-Yu Chen, Scott Uglow, Alison Scott, Enid Montague

Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Award: Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award