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Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps for Smoking, Sugar Intake, and Obesity on Maintaining Healthy Behavioral Activation

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Design, User Experience, and Usability (HCII 2023)

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of healthcare mobile apps for smoking, sugar intake, and obesity on maintaining healthy behavioral activation. We conducted a three-stage experiment with a preliminary survey, a PAM survey, and interviews and found that healthcare mobile apps for smoking, sugar intake, and obesity can improve health behavior activation in healthy people, but these apps should help users improve their ability to prevent and self-manage disease in a simpler and more understandable way. Also, the discussion function of the apps can give users an intuitive perception of the disease and the design of the user discussion area can be enhanced in the future. In addition, the existing apps in the market contain content mainly for people who are already sick, future development of apps can add a prevention module to help users improve their poor health behaviors early and improve their disease self-management skills early.

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Li, X., Jiang, A. (2023). Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps for Smoking, Sugar Intake, and Obesity on Maintaining Healthy Behavioral Activation. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35705-3_30

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