Title :
Changing health behaviors through social and physical context awareness
Author :
Guanling Chen ; Xiang Ding ; Ke Huang ; Xu Ye ; Chunhui Zhang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
Abstract :
The single greatest opportunity to improve health and reduce premature death lies in personal behavior. While technology-based behavior intervention has been around for many years, the emerging smartphone and wearable sensing technology brings great promise to push health behavior change further by inferring and predicting real-time behavior occurrence and its context. In this paper, we envision how social and physical context awareness could sustain behavior change motivation and assist health habit formation. We describe our preliminary work that supports this vision and outline the research challenges to be addressed.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences computing; medical computing; smart phones; ubiquitous computing; behavior change motivation; health behaviors; health habit formation assistance; health improvement; personal behavior; physical context awareness; premature death reduction; real-time health behavior occurrence; smart phone; social awareness; technology-based behavior intervention; wearable sensing technology; Accuracy; Context; Monitoring; Obesity; Sensors; Social network services; Stress; activity recognition; behavior change; behavior sensing; behavioral health; context awareness; smartphone sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Garden Grove, CA
DOI :
10.1109/ICCNC.2015.7069424