Persuasive Pillboxes: Improving Medication Adherence with Personal Digital Assistants

A Study of Medication-Taking and Unobtrusive, Intelligent Reminding

“…More recently, Sterns and Mayhorn proposed a pill-dispensing Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), which led to improved adherence in a population of young adults during the third month of a 3-month field trial. 46 Because subjects carried the PDA during the day, they were able to take the medication from the device when prompted. However, this approach has the drawback that the user must remember to carry the device, and in some populations, including the elderly, this may pose an unacceptable burden.…”

Persuasive technology for health and wellness: State-of-the-art and emerging trends

“…[29], [30], [37], [43], [46], [48], [50], [65]- [67], [69] [11], [71], [72] [15], [83]- [85], [87], [88] 28 Social support, sharing, and comparison [35], [44], [45], [46], [48], [53], [65], [66], [4] [35], [37], [42], [49], [53], [55], [58], [60], [63] [72]- [75], [ [39], [41], [47], [52], [56], [62] [88] 11…”

Persuasion for Stronger Passwords: Motivation and Pilot Study

“…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].…”

“…To simplify discussion, we consider 8-character passwords, since the arguments extend for longer passwords. The TPS size is the number of all possible 8-character passwords: 95 8 ≈ 6.6 · 10 15 . Table 1 shows the growth in number of passwords as the password space character set becomes larger by using characters from different subsets, such as lower-and uppercase letters, digits, and symbols.…”