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Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity
Lack of physical activity is an increasingly important health risk. Modern mobile technology, such as smartphones and digital measurement devices, provides new opportunities to tackle physical inactivity. This paper describes the design of a system that aims to encourage young adults to be more phys...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629178 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061436 |
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author | Klein, Michel C. A. Manzoor, Adnan Mollee, Julia S. |
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description | Lack of physical activity is an increasingly important health risk. Modern mobile technology, such as smartphones and digital measurement devices, provides new opportunities to tackle physical inactivity. This paper describes the design of a system that aims to encourage young adults to be more physically active. The system monitors the user’s behavior, uses social comparison and provides tailored and personalized feedback based on intelligent reasoning mechanisms. As the name suggests, social processes play an important role in the Active2Gether system. The design choices and functioning of the system are described in detail. Based on the experiences with the development and deployment of the system, a number of lessons learnt are provided and suggestions are proposed for improvements in future developments. |
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spelling | pubmed-54923892017-07-03 Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity Klein, Michel C. A. Manzoor, Adnan Mollee, Julia S. Sensors (Basel) Article Lack of physical activity is an increasingly important health risk. Modern mobile technology, such as smartphones and digital measurement devices, provides new opportunities to tackle physical inactivity. This paper describes the design of a system that aims to encourage young adults to be more physically active. The system monitors the user’s behavior, uses social comparison and provides tailored and personalized feedback based on intelligent reasoning mechanisms. As the name suggests, social processes play an important role in the Active2Gether system. The design choices and functioning of the system are described in detail. Based on the experiences with the development and deployment of the system, a number of lessons learnt are provided and suggestions are proposed for improvements in future developments. MDPI 2017-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5492389/ /pubmed/28629178 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061436 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Klein, Michel C. A. Manzoor, Adnan Mollee, Julia S. Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title | Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title_full | Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title_fullStr | Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title_full_unstemmed | Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title_short | Active2Gether: A Personalized m-Health Intervention to Encourage Physical Activity |
title_sort | active2gether: a personalized m-health intervention to encourage physical activity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629178 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061436 |
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