Abstract
Health is an important topic in HCI research with an increasing amount of health risks surrounding individuals and society at large. It is well known that smoking cigarettes can have serious health implications. The importance of this problem motivates investigation into the use of technology to encourage behavior change. Our study was designed to gather empirical knowledge about the role a "quitting app" can play in persuading people to quit smoking. Our purpose-built app Quitty introduces different content types from different content sources to study how they are perceived and motivate health behavior change. Findings from our field study show that tailored content and push-messages are considered the most important for persuading people to stop smoking. Based on our empirical findings, we propose six guidelines on how to design mobile applications to persuade smokers to quit.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014 |
Subtitle of host publication | The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 551-560 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 1595930361, 9781450325424 |
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Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014 - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 26 Oct 2014 → 30 Oct 2014 Conference number: 8th https://web.archive.org/web/20141020222058/http://nordichi2014.org/ |
Conference
Conference | Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | NordiCHI 2014 |
Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Helsinki |
Period | 26/10/14 → 30/10/14 |
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Keywords
- Health behavior change
- Online participation
- Persuasive technology
- Smoking cessation