Apps for life change: Critical review and solution directions

Helf, Christopher; Hlavacs, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2015.07.001

Cited by 44 publications

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“…This finding is consistent with findings from others (3,9,100). In their review, Hermawati and Lawson (9) suggest that when applications do not target a very specific user group this may result in a mismatch of potential user needs and application characteristics and therefore poor application engagement.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Collaboration between academics and application developers promotes an appropriate balance of evidence-based content and functionality (3)(4)(5). This review can be used as a starting point and foundation for these collaborations in designing applications for nutrition-improvement projects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Smartphones are now ubiquitous and increasingly intertwined with daily life (4,8), primarily owing to rapid advances in the capabilities of applications (8). Fostering sustained user engagement with applications, however, is a constant battle for application developers, and therefore in the context of applications for health behavior change improvements can be short-lived (3,4,9). Hingle and Patrick (4) propose that an appropriate benchmark for heath application success might not be frequency or consistency of use, but rather that the application characteristics (that is, application features and content) provide such an engaging user experience that users return to using the application when it is most needed during the iterative process of nutrition improvement.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Often the populations with the greatest need are geographically dispersed and hard to reach; because of interventions typically being disseminated across sociodemographic groups, tailoring information to best support behavior change may be difficult. More recently there has been a growing interest in the use of mobile health, in particular the use of smartphone software applications (3), to support nutrition improvement in community settings and overcome these unique challenges (4,5).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Characteristics of Smartphone Applications for Nutrition Improvement in Community Settings: A Scoping Review

Tonkin

Brimblecombe

Wycherley

2017

Advances in Nutrition

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Smartphone applications are increasingly being used to support nutrition improvement in community settings. However, there is a scarcity of practical literature to support researchers and practitioners in choosing or developing health applications. This work maps the features, key content, theoretical approaches, and methods of consumer testing of applications intended for nutrition improvement in community settings. A systematic, scoping review methodology was used to map published, peer-reviewed literature reporting on applications with a specific nutrition-improvement focus intended for use in the community setting. After screening, articles were grouped into 4 categories: dietary selfmonitoring trials, nutrition improvement trials, application description articles, and qualitative application development studies. For mapping, studies were also grouped into categories based on the target population and aim of the application or program. Of the 4818 titles identified from the database search, 64 articles were included. The broad categories of features found to be included in applications generally corresponded to different behavior change support strategies common to many classic behavioral change models. Key content of applications generally focused on food composition, with tailored feedback most commonly used to deliver educational content. Consumer testing before application deployment was reported in just over half of the studies. Collaboration between practitioners and application developers promotes an appropriate balance of evidence-based content and functionality. This work provides a unique resource for program development teams and practitioners seeking to use an application for nutrition improvement in community settings. Adv Nutr 2017;8:308-22.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Characteristics of Smartphone Applications for Nutrition Improvement in Community Settings: A Scoping Review

Tonkin

Brimblecombe

Wycherley

2017

Advances in Nutrition

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“…It offers access to home environment data in order to have a better understanding of the user context, i.e environmental factors such as thermal comfort, noise and luminosity levels. But, it also gives capabilities to developer of health applications to integrate feedbacks in order to engage users and help them to change their behaviour [18]. Finally, the infrastructure allows to build persuasive technology.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Transparent home Sensors/Actuators layer for Health &Well-being services

Tanguy¹,

Simonnet²,

Lohr³

et al. 2017

EAI Endorsed Trans Perv Health Tech

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Risks factor leading to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases can be reduced by a preventive care infrastructure able to modify the habits toward healthier lifestyles, including more exercise, a better diet and a reduced stress. Accessing the home space is important not only to monitor indoor environment quality (IEQ) but also to provide relevant user's feedback and engage users towards a healthy life style. This paper present a new preventive care infrastructure composed of a distributed infrastructure for heterogeneous devices in the home local area network (named xAAL) in conjunction with a machine to machine protocol (MQTT) to external health & well-being services. Finally, end-user tests were performed in the Experiment'HAAL living lab in order to test sensors and feedbacks.

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