mHealth Stakeholder Integration: A gamification-based Framework-approach towards behavioural change

Christopher Helf, Patrick Zwickl, Helmut Hlavacs, Peter Reichl

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Abstract

Smartphone-based applications are increasingly being used to combat unhealthy habits resulting in obesity or reduced physical mobility. In turn, gamification has been identfied as a useful tool to motivate individuals towards behavioural change. However, both health professionals and game developers are currently working on island solutions addressing individual problems due to the lack of eficient frameworks enabling cooperation in this domain. This has resulted in a large number of mHealth apps, each using dfierent motivational techniques, metrics and health data. In this paper we propose a unfied user-centred framework which is capable of running third-party developer's apps within a sandbox. Using this approach, we can mitigate often voiced privacy and safety concerns and simultaneously tailor healthinterventions using content from developers as well as user preferences and environment in order to facilitate internalization of healthy lifestyles. Apart from this, we provide indications for operationalizing our conceptual framework in future work.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsIsmail Khalil, Matthias Steinbauer, Liming Chen, Gabriele Anderst-Kotsis
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages268-274
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-3493-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2015
EventThe 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia - Brüssel, Belgium
Duration: 11 Dec 201513 Dec 2015

Conference

ConferenceThe 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrüssel
Period11/12/1513/12/15

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 102014 Information design

Keywords

  • eHealth
  • Framework
  • Gamification
  • Health Intervention
  • Individualisation
  • mHealth

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