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Remote patient monitoring is becoming increasingly instrumental to healthcare delivery but can substantially hamper the interpersonal communication that underlies standard clinical practice. In this work, we explore the benefits imparted to patients, ...

Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and protocols are designed to support evidence-based practices for clinicians; however, their adoption remains a challenge. We set out to investigate why clinicians deviate from the “Wake Up and Breathe” ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform healthcare by improving treatment outcomes and reducing associated costs. AI is increasingly being adopted in healthcare. In this regard, one area where AI can have a significant impact is in improving ...

Health promotion is a complex communication process that involves identifying and recommending adoption of the best available evidence-based guidelines for addressing the most dangerous health risks confronting modern society. Despite the steady ...

Forgetfulness is a primary factor of medication nonadherence, a problem that contributes to worse health outcomes and increased mortality among people with chronic conditions. Common strategies to address forgetfulness, such as timed reminders, have ...

Offering participants in mobile app studies personalized feedback on the data they report seems an obvious thing to do: Participants might expect an app to provide feedback given their experiences with commercial apps, feedback might motivate more people ...

While diary studies, especially when applying ecological momentary assessment (EMA), are a great way to capture self perceptions to later use as labels for other data, they can be a burden for study participants. To increase their adherence to the ...

Many serious games are most effective when played regularly; however, little is known about how individual game elements support player adherence over time. This work draws on evidence from existing frameworks and game design theories as well as from ...

The use of interactive mobile and wearable technologies for understanding and managing health conditions is a growing area of interest for patients, health professionals and researchers. Self-tracking technologies such as smartphone apps and wearable ...

Mental health e-coaches and technology-delivered services are showing considerable benefits to foster mental health literacy, monitor symptoms, favour self-management of different mental health conditions and scaffold positive behaviours. However, ...

Player experience research tends to focus on immersive games that draw us into a single play session for hours; however, for casual games played on mobile devices, a pattern of brief daily interaction---called snacking ---may be most profitable for ...

This paper introduces a system with persuasive communication to improve the diet compliance and adherence of participants of the PROMISS-project. For this persuasive communication different strategies and ways of personalisation are used, in accordance ...

The ubiquity of wearable fitness trackers offers extensive opportunities for research on personal health. However, barriers specific to these trackers such as device abandonment and non-adherence often lead to substantial losses in data. As such, ...

Behavioral medicine is devoting increasing attention to the topic of participant engagement and its role in effective mobile health (mHealth) behavioral interventions. Several definitions of the term "engagement" have been proposed and discussed, ...

Impelling the ambulatory hypertensive patients to stick to the prescribed treatment throughout a long term is a challenging problem. To address the problem, the personal monitoring system can be used providing the possibility both to gather various ...

Background: Hypertensive disease and preeclampsia are serious medical disorders affecting pregnancy. Screening in early pregnancy may identify women at risk and enable prophylactic treatment. Accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement at the hospital ...

Increasingly, people are collecting detailed personal activity data from commercial trackers. Such data should be able to give important insights about their activity levels. However, people do not wear or carry tracking devices all day, every day and ...

In this paper, we explore how different strategy (explicit vs. implicit) and arousal (high vs. low) of cueing influence the process of Computer-Human Persuasion. In particular, we study the impact of various combinations of text-based reminder and screen ...

People suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have to deal with the disease throughout their lifetime and there is no getting around without a successful self-management process. However, a poor adherence to COPD treatment is common ...

Despite more than a decade with a focus on creating technical solutions for supporting self-care efforts and securing increased patient autonomy, data quality remains to be a challenge, especially when moving from the supervised clinical setting and ...