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Remote health coaching for interactive exercise with older adults in a home environment

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Optimal health coaching interventions are tailored to individuals' needs, preferences, motivations, barriers, timing, and readiness to change. Technology approaches are useful in both monitoring a user's adherence to their behavior change goals and also in providing just-in-time feedback and coaching messages. User models that incorporate dynamically varying behavior change variables with algorithms that trigger tailored messages provide a framework for making health interventions more effective. These principles are applied in the described system for assisting older adults in meeting their physical exercise goals with a tailored interactive video system with just-in-time feedback and encouragement.

Source: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2015.7319633

Authors: Holly B. Jimison, Stuart Hagler, Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy, Misha Pavel

Institutions: Northeastern University, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Nursing Research