QuittyLink: A mobile application that helps people quit smoking

Jeni Paay, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael Skov, Umachanger Brinthaparan, Nirojan Srikandarajah, Dimitrios Raptis

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Abstract

We have developed an application called QuittyLink that helps people quit smoking. QuittyLink is inspired by the known value of personal face-to-face counseling as an effective means to help people quit, and provides personal counseling on mobile phones based on selfand system-tracked data about smoking habits. The application collects time, location and situations that trigger the smokers to smoke or crave cigarettes and presents it to them in the form of simple charts/graphs. Users are also sent personal counseling messages written by experts from the quit help line Stoplinien, and is based on their individual smoking behaviors. The demonstration of QuittyLink adds to our MobileHCI'15 paper [7] with more details about the system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobileHCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages599-606
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450336536
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2015 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 24 Aug 201527 Aug 2015
Conference number: 17th
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2786567 (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2015
Abbreviated titleMobileHCI 2015
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period24/08/1527/08/15
Internet address

Keywords

  • Health behavior change
  • Mobile interaction design
  • Personal counseling
  • Self-tracking
  • Smoking cessation

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