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Diabetic and obese users given a Fitbit fitness tracker for seven months identified the device's playfulness, practicality, persuasiveness, personalization, and privacy as the top motivators for its use. These results provide insights into designing wearable health monitors that are engaging enough to effect long-term change. In the web extra at https://youtu.be/ByQNA06-pS8, guest editor Katarzyna...
The rapid advancement of wearable devices and smartphones, allowed practitioners and specialists to keep track of physical, biological and behavioral activities. Nowadays, this self tracking, a.k.a. quantified self (QS), is widely used in big data science due to the large volume of data being generated from these devices. The wearable devices that are being used today for self-tracking can collect...
Telemedicine is the delivery of general and specialty e-clinical services to remote area, using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and network of sensors. Successful health management of a patient who has visual impairment and also obesity problems includes multiple treatment strategies, focusing on changing the patient's diet, modifying eating and physical activity habits, and also...
The aim of this position paper is to examine the case for supporting behaviour change in pre-diabetic obese people in order to improve their health. The paper sets out the background and motivation for supporting behaviour change before outlining the relevant literature in this health and wellbeing area. The paper then explores the feasibility of SmartLife — a patient-driven application involving...
Obesity increases the chances of various diseases, particularly heart disease, diabetes type 2, obstructive sleep apnea, certain cancers, osteoarthritis and asthma. Obesity is often caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily by genes, endocrine disorders, medications or psychiatric illness...
Recent advances in mobile devices have made profound changes in people's daily lives. In particular, the impact of easy access of information by the smartphone has been tremendous. However, the impact of mobile devices on healthcare has been limited. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases are still initiated by occurrences of symptoms, and technologies and devices that emphasize on disease prevention...
Internationally, at the population level, a review of overweight/obesity prevalence trends reveals consistent increase of the condition in industrialized nations, but considerable variability internationally in the magnitude of the change. Unlike other approaches to reduce obesity that rely in expert design of someone's strategy, the decision support model (DSM) proposed by this research goes beyond...
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