Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review

Aldenaini, Noora and Alqahtani, Felwah and Orji, Rita and Sampalli, Srinivas (2020) Trends in Persuasive Technologies for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3. ISSN 2624-8212

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Abstract

Persuasive technology (PT) is increasingly being used in the health and wellness domain to motivate and assist users with different lifestyles and behavioral health issues to change their attitudes and/or behaviors. There is growing evidence that PT can be effective at promoting behaviors in many health and wellness domains, including promoting physical activity (PA), healthy eating, and reducing sedentary behavior (SB). SB has been shown to pose a risk to overall health. Thus, reducing SB and increasing PA have been the focus of much PT work. This paper aims to provide a systematic review of PTs for promoting PA and reducing SB. Specifically, we answer some fundamental questions regarding its design and effectiveness based on an empirical review of the literature on PTs for promoting PA and discouraging SB, from 2003 to 2019 (170 papers). There are three main objectives: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of PT in promoting PA and reducing SB; (2) to summarize and highlight trends in the outcomes such as system design, research methods, persuasive strategies employed and their implementaions, behavioral theories, and employed technological platforms; (3) to reveal the pitfalls and gaps in the present literature that can be leveraged and used to inform future research on designing PT for PA and SB.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Science Repository > Multidisciplinary
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2023 06:46
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2024 09:33
URI: http://research.manuscritpub.com/id/eprint/1197

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