Designing persuasive application to encourage physical activity at workplace among older workers

Mohadis, Hazwani Mohd; Ali, Nazlena Mohamad

doi:10.1109/dictap.2016.7544013

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“…A third-party endorsement strategy was used in the “WragaFit” application, as the PA goals were set by the Ministry of Health [ 157 ]. Another example was represented in the “WeightBit” application, which used the Apple Technology Company's Health Kit [ 171 ].…”

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Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review

Aldenaini

Alqahtani

Orji

et al. 2020

Front. Artif. Intell.

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Persuasive technology (PT) is increasingly being used in the health and wellness domain to motivate and assist users with different lifestyles and behavioral health issues to change their attitudes and/or behaviors. There is growing evidence that PT can be effective at promoting behaviors in many health and wellness domains, including promoting physical activity (PA), healthy eating, and reducing sedentary behavior (SB). SB has been shown to pose a risk to overall health. Thus, reducing SB and increasing PA have been the focus of much PT work. This paper aims to provide a systematic review of PTs for promoting PA and reducing SB. Specifically, we answer some fundamental questions regarding its design and effectiveness based on an empirical review of the literature on PTs for promoting PA and discouraging SB, from 2003 to 2019 (170 papers). There are three main objectives: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of PT in promoting PA and reducing SB; (2) to summarize and highlight trends in the outcomes such as system design, research methods, persuasive strategies employed and their implementaions, behavioral theories, and employed technological platforms; (3) to reveal the pitfalls and gaps in the present literature that can be leveraged and used to inform future research on designing PT for PA and SB.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review

Aldenaini

Alqahtani

Orji

et al. 2020

Front. Artif. Intell.

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“…Of the 11 papers that did use a theoretical model, the most commonly used theory was the transtheoretical model (25%) [37,58,68], followed by the theory of planned behavior (17%) [41,46] and self-determination theory (17%) [50,74]. Five other papers based their designs on, respectively, persuasive system design model [65], goal setting theory [55], distributed prospective memory approach [48], social cognitive theory [38] and social learning theory combined with the theory of reasoned action [46].…”

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“…Twenty-six interventions were specifically designed for the office environment, while 19 studies had a more generic approach in which they did not specify the context of use. Eight papers reported an evaluation of their intervention on SB or PA [35,37,43,65,66,77,78]. Thirty-three studies did not give a definition of PA or SB, while nine studies provided a definition of PA and four studies offered a definition of SB (Table 3).…”

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“…Physical activity [35,43,46,53,58,65,66,74,77] Sedentary behavior [36,45,48,60] Not defined [12,34,[37][38][39][40][41][42]44,47,[49][50][51][52][54][55][56][57]59,[61][62][63][64][67][68][69][70][71][72][73]75,76] Although the majority of the papers did not provide a definition of SB or PA, a general distribution of the main targeted behavior could be made based on the description of the interventions. Just over half of the interventions targeted PA (24) while 9 interventions targeted SB and 12 targeted both PA and SB.…”

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A Scoping Review of Digital Tools to Reduce Sedentary Behavior or Increase Physical Activity in Knowledge Workers

Damen

Brombacher

Lallemand

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Background: There is increasing interest in the role that technology can play in improving the vitality of knowledge workers. A promising and widely adopted strategy to attain this goal is to reduce sedentary behavior (SB) and increase physical activity (PA). In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art SB and PA interventions using technology in the office environment. By scoping the existing landscape, we identified current gaps and underexplored possibilities. We discuss opportunities for future development and research on SB and PA interventions using technology. Methods: A systematic search was conducted in the Association for Computing Machinery digital library, the interdisciplinary library Scopus, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Xplore Digital Library to locate peer-reviewed scientific articles detailing SB and PA technology interventions in office environments between 2009 and 2019. Results: The initial search identified 1130 articles, of which 45 studies were included in the analysis. Our scoping review focused on the technologies supporting the interventions, which were coded using a grounded approach. Conclusion: Our findings showed that current SB and PA interventions using technology provide limited possibilities for physically active ways of working as opposed to the common strategy of prompting breaks. Interventions are also often offered as additional systems or services, rather than integrated into existing office infrastructures. With this work, we have mapped different types of interventions and provide an increased understanding of the opportunities for future multidisciplinary development and research of technologies to address sedentary behavior and physical activity in the office context.

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“…First, machine learning was applied to classify activities and generate suggestions based on the users’ past behavioral patterns, which were found to yield stronger intention to follow than generic suggestions [46]. Second, the likeability of different forms of feedback was explored: “at-a-glanceˮ and real-time display of summative data was perceived as useful and motivating by users [48,51]; potential features demanded by users were visual feedback on the health outcomes of SB, accurate and reliable data sources, and the control over the collection and sharing of their data feedback with colleagues [83].…”

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confidence: 99%

Digital Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors of Office Workers: Scoping Review

Huang¹,

Benford²,

Blake³

2019

J Med Internet Res

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Background There is a clear public health need to reduce office workers’ sedentary behaviors (SBs), especially in the workplace. Digital technologies are increasingly being deployed in the workplace to measure and modify office workers’ SBs. However, knowledge of the range and nature of research on this topic is limited; it also remains unclear to what extent digital interventions have exploited the technological possibilities. Objective This study aimed to investigate the technological landscape of digital interventions for SB reduction in office workers and to map the research activity in this field. Methods Terms related to SB, office worker, and digital technology were applied in various combinations to search Cochrane Library, Joanna Briggs Institute Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Scopus, Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library, Engineering index Compendex, and Google Scholar for the years 2000 to 2017. Data regarding the study and intervention details were extracted. Interventions and studies were categorized into development, feasibility and/piloting, evaluation, or implementation phase based on the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions. A novel framework was developed to classify technological features and annotate technological configurations. A mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches was used to summarize data. Results We identified 68 articles describing 45 digital interventions designed to intervene with office workers’ SB. A total of 6 common technological features had been applied to interventions with various combinations. Configurations such as “information delivery and mediated organizational and social support” and “digital log and automated tailored feedback” were well established in evaluation and implementation studies; in contrast, the integration of passive data collection, connected devices, and ATF or scheduled prompts was mostly present in development and piloting research. Conclusions This review is the first to map and describe the use of digital technologies in research on SB reduction in office workers. Interdisciplinary collaborations can help to maximize the potential of technologies. As novel modes of delivery that capitalize on embedded computing and electronics, wireless technologies have been developed and piloted in engineering, computing, and design fields, efforts can be directed to move them to the next phase of evaluation with more rigorous study designs. Quality of research may be improved by fostering conversations between different research communities and encouraging researchers to plan, conduct, and report their research under the MRC framework. This review will be particularly informative to those deciding on areas where further research or development is needed and to those looking to locate the relevant expertise, resources, ...

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Designing persuasive application to encourage physical activity at workplace among older workers

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review

Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review

A Scoping Review of Digital Tools to Reduce Sedentary Behavior or Increase Physical Activity in Knowledge Workers

Digital Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors of Office Workers: Scoping Review

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