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Evaluating effectiveness of stimulus control, time management and self-reward for weight loss behavior change

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UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 441 - 446

https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2801645

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Behavior change strategies have been found to be effective for weight loss. Over 20 strategies exist but only 4 are commonly included in smartphone weight loss apps. Other strategies such as stimulus control address common reasons users relapse and therefore may help improve the success of weight loss apps. My work focuses on implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of 3 additional interventions, stimulus control, time management and self-reward, for users in different stages of the change process. Here, I present results from a preliminary study on how to design feedback and goal setting to assist users in implementing the stimulus control strategy. I use the findings to present a concept for the inclusion of stimulus control in weight loss apps. Implementation of stimulus control is currently underway.

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ISBN:9781450335751

DOI:10.1145/2800835

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Kenji Mase
Nagoya University, JP
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Marc Langheinrich
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), CH
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IDIAP-EPFL, CH
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Hans Gellersen
Lancaster University, UK
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Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell University
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Koji Yatani
Univerisity of Tokyo, JP

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Vaid SHarari G(2022)Smartphones in Personal Informatics: A Framework for Self-Tracking Research with Mobile SensingDigital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing10.1007/978-3-030-98546-2_6(77-104)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2022
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Vaid SHarari G(2019)Smartphones in Personal Informatics: A Framework for Self-Tracking Research with Mobile SensingDigital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing10.1007/978-3-030-31620-4_5(65-92)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31620-4_5
Barbarin ASaslow LAckerman MVeinot TMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)Toward Health Information Technology that Supports Overweight/Obese Women in Addressing Emotion- and Stress-Related EatingProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3173895(1-14)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3173895

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