Promoting a healthy lifestyle: Towards an improved personalized feedback approach

Abstract

Technology supported services for achieving a healthy lifestyle have shown their short term effects and are receiving increasing interest fr om the research community. However, long term adherence to these services is poor. This paper describes research-in-progress regarding the implementation of automated goal-setting and tailored fe edback messages into one such technology supported service, which aims to improve the user's physical activity pattern. Tailored fe edback messages for several personas were set up based on theories fr om behavioral science and categorized by experts during an expert workshop. Results indicate reasonable agreement on the matching of motivational messages to fo ur personas. Additional expert input is discussed descriptively. Future research will fo cus on examining the effectiveness of the new version of the service under investigation.

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