Persuasiveness of a Mobile Lifestyle Coaching Application Using Social Facilitation

Gasser, Roland; Brodbeck, Dominique; Degen, Markus; Luthiger, Jürg; Wyss, Remo; Reichlin, Serge

doi:10.1007/11755494_5

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“…The persuasive goals, topic, medium, audience, and desired persuasive strength determine which persuasion strategies should be employed. PT has successfully produced desired behaviour changes in many domains, such as health [8,15] and education [10].…”

Section: Persuasive Authentication Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Users felt the new system was slower (4), that they would prefer a normal system if they were in a hurry (4), and that they would find the passwords more difficult to remember (4). However, they did feel the system was more secure than ordinary passwords (8), led to passwords that would be more difficult to guess (8), and with practice, they could get used to the system (8). These results seem reasonable for a new authentication system, and reflect a trade-off we would expect.…”

Section: Shuffles How Often Did Users Shuffle Improved Password Suggmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Persuasion for Stronger Passwords: Motivation and Pilot Study

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Persuasive Technology

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Abstract. Text passwords are the ubiquitous method of authentication, used by most people for most online services. Many people choose weak passwords that are vulnerable to attackers who simply guess all the passwords within the most probable password spaces. This paper describes a lightweight password creation mechanism that uses Persuasive Technology to influence users to create stronger passwords. Results from a pilot study show that our Persuasive Text Passwords (PTP) prototype system successfully influenced users to create and remember more secure passwords.

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Section: Persuasive Authentication Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Shuffles How Often Did Users Shuffle Improved Password Suggmentioning

confidence: 99%

Persuasion for Stronger Passwords: Motivation and Pilot Study

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Persuasive Technology

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“…Understanding the needs of a population is a critical step in the design process, and this paper offers unique insights for those working in this domain, an area of growing popularity (e.g., [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]). Our findings expose opportunities for technologies to help individuals overcome or mitigate barriers, as well as help designers and evaluators of the technologies understand potential issues that may arise during long-term use of the technologies which may adversely affect the technologies' effectiveness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers to Physical Activity: A Study of Self-Revelation in an Online Community

2011

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The importance of regular physical activity to overall health has been well established, yet adults in the United States are leading increasingly sedentary lives. Research suggests that lowering perceived barriers to exercise is an effective strategy for encouraging physical activity. This article describes the top barriers that emerged from a qualitative analysis of message board traffic from a threemonth healthy lifestyle intervention that promoted physical activity and healthy eating. The findings further elaborate known barriers to physical activity-two of which are not reported as key barriers in prior research-and illustrate the value of a grounded approach to studying health and fitness behaviors. Based on our analysis, we identify design considerations for technologies that encourage and support physical activity. Understanding the needs of a population is a critical step in the design process, and this paper offers unique insights for those working in this growing domain.

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“…Over recent years the problem of physical inactivity has received much interest from computer scientists in both the academic and commercial domain. The ever-increasing ability of pervasive technology to detect the nature of an individual's movements lends itself well to the established behavioural change technique (BCT) of self-monitoring [2], and has led to the development of many physical activity promoting applications [3][4][5]. The evolution of single-user activity promotion systems into multi-user equivalents seems to be a natural progression in this area of research, as the inclusion of social support promises to increase the likelihood of increased and prolonged physical activity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The evolution of single-user activity promotion systems into multi-user equivalents seems to be a natural progression in this area of research, as the inclusion of social support promises to increase the likelihood of increased and prolonged physical activity. However, previous studies of multi-user activity promotion systems, including our own, have generated diverse and sometimes conflicting results [3][4][5][6]. In response to these findings we have decided to explore the potential of social support within activity promotion systems further.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collabohab: A Technology Probe into Peer Involvement in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Maitland

2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Mobile and ubiquitous systems designed to promote an increase in physical activity by harnessing social influence have so far had variable success. Taking a cardiac rehabilitation program as a specific health domain, in which physical inactivity is one of several targeted behaviours, the research described in this paper aims to elicit understanding of peer-involvement in health-related behavioural change and explore the potential for effective technological support. This paper introduces the technology probe Collabohab and discusses the accompanying methodological approach being adopted to establish insight into the important but so far little understood phenomenon of social support within health-related behavioural change.

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Persuasiveness of a Mobile Lifestyle Coaching Application Using Social Facilitation

Cited by 95 publications

References 6 publications

Persuasion for Stronger Passwords: Motivation and Pilot Study

Persuasion for Stronger Passwords: Motivation and Pilot Study

Barriers to Physical Activity: A Study of Self-Revelation in an Online Community

Collabohab: A Technology Probe into Peer Involvement in Cardiac Rehabilitation

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