Cues for Increasing Social Presence for Mobile Health App Adoption

Lazard, Allison J.; Brennen, J. Scott; Adams, Elizabeth Troutman; Love, Brad

doi:10.1080/10810730.2020.1719241

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“…Other people's behaviour acts as a mental shortcut to guide one's actions, so if other people adhere to a certain behaviour, the tendency to do the same is increased. Empirical evidence shows that this pattern is also observed for mHealth apps (Lazard et al, 2020). Such orientations towards descriptive social norms are also one important context factor within privacy decision-making (Teutsch et al, 2018;Masur & Scharkow, 2016) and impact disclosing behaviour (Spottswood & Hancock, 2017).…”

Section: The Impact Of Social Normsmentioning

confidence: 72%

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Joeckel

Henke

Dogruel

2021

EJHC

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mHealth apps are growing in popularity among smartphone users. Such apps often contain social features that enable users to compare their behavior with others but to function, mHealth apps require users to share health information which is considered a threat to individuals’ privacy. Building on social comparison theory and research on privacy decision-making, we investigate the effects of users’ social comparison orientation and privacy attitudes as well as the potential mediating effect of health information disclosure on users’ intention to use a dietary app. Relying on a PLS-based structural-equation model in a sample of N = 528 participants, our study supports claims of a positive effect of social comparison orientation on intention to use a mHealth app. Further, the negative effect of privacy attitude and the positive mediation of information disclosure were supported as well. The study also demonstrated that findings were stable when the context of information disclosure is changed.

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Section: The Impact Of Social Normsmentioning

confidence: 72%

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Henke

Dogruel

2021

EJHC

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“…In hindsight, our approach to reminders may have inadvertently reinforced impressions that the intervention was delivered by machines and not by humans. Communication scientists have discovered a range of design features, such as human imagery and testimonials, that increase the perception of being together with others (i.e., social presence), which in turn is known to increase the effectiveness of digital health interventions (Lazard et al, 2020). If deployed here, our modest intervention, for which the current study provides proof of principle, might pave the way for a scalable and low-cost digital wellness campaign that targets the affective quality of everyday interactions with strangers and acquaintances to raise prosocial virtues at a time when many Americans feel them to be lacking or waning.…”

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The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.

Zhou¹,

Prinzing²,

Nguyen³

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The positivity resonance theory of coexperienced positive affect (Fredrickson, 2016) identifies the emotion of love as a collective state. This state, termed positive resonance, is defined by the presence of three key features: shared positive affect, caring nonverbal synchrony, and biological synchrony. The current study examined whether a modest behavioral intervention focused on increasing social connectedness could increase study participants' perceptions of day-to-day positivity resonance with corollary impacts on their tendencies for prosociality and self-centeredness. Adults (N = 416, M age = 33.8) were randomized to one of four study conditions: either of two variants of the social connectedness intervention or either of two control groups. Positivity resonance, prosociality, and self-centeredness were measured nightly for 35 consecutive days. Dynamic multilevel factor models of nightly reports showed significant growth in positivity resonance, relative to a passive control group, for the two intervention groups and higher mean levels of prosociality for one of them. In addition, significant dose-response relations were evident (both between persons and within persons), linking positivity resonance to both prosociality and self-centeredness. The within-persons effect for prosociality (but not self-centeredness) was significantly stronger for those randomized to the intervention groups, relative to both passive and active control groups. Taken together, findings suggest that the affective quality of people's day-to-day social encounters may have implications for community flourishing. Discussion centers on theoretical and practical implications as well as directions for future research.

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“…An expanding array of mHealth platforms, devices and apps solicit a broad range of health information-clinical data, performance data, and experiential data-that deliver unprecedented personal information to users, doctors, and other interested parties (Adibi, 2015). Because consumers consider this type of information to be particularly sensitive, numerous studies have sought to understand attitudes and behaviors related to managing these data (Robinson, 2017(Robinson, , 2019Brinson et al, 2018;Lazard et al, 2020).…”

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“…One of the key promises of QSHFT technologies is they will empower users by providing self‐management tools for those who wish to engage in healthier lifestyles. Granting individual's access to their own health data is argued to be a prerequisite to understanding, controlling and managing health behavior (Lucivero and Jongsma, 2018); and studies examining the ability of QSHFT devices to motivate users toward self‐regulatory goals have shown significant and positive results (Cadmus‐Bertram, 2017; Cheatham et al ., 2018; Lazard et al ., 2020). In terms of empowering behavior change, QSHFT devices have been credited with increasing users' intrinsic motivation through emotional engagement, social connectedness, and goal actualization by transforming personal experiences into tools for building new and enduring personal habits (Whitson, 2013).…”

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Privacy and the quantified self: A review of U.S. health information policy limitations related to wearable technologies

Brinson

Rutherford²

2020

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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As Americans increasingly integrate quantified selfhealth and fitness tracking (QSHFT) technologies into their lives, the data collected by these devices offer to not only help users to live healthier lives, but also present opportunities for interested parties to identify and target them based on their health-related behaviors. Clinicians, employers, health insurers, data brokers, marketers, and litigators have all expressed interest in accessing individuals' QSHFT data for a variety of purposes. Existing policies related to the collection, aggregation, and use of these data do not consistently address and protect individual health privacy concerns. Indeed, U.S. lawmakers recently proposed two separate bills designed to correct this deficiency. The purpose of this review is to examine current motivations, practices, policies, and regulations related to QSHFT data, identify areas where individuals' health information privacy is currently being compromised, and propose specific solutions to address this escalating area of privacy concern. K E Y W O R D S information privacy policy, mHealth apps, quantified self Americans are increasingly turning to a variety of quantified self-health and fitness tracking (QSHFT) technologies (including smart watches, wearable fitness-trackers, and smartphone applications) in an effort to learn more about their everyday habits, connect with valued others,

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Cues for Increasing Social Presence for Mobile Health App Adoption

Cited by 24 publications

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