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As the rates of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and
heart disease continue to rise, the development of effective tools
that can help people adopt and sustain healthier habits is becoming
ever more important. Mobile computing holds great promise for
providing effective support for helping people manage their health
in everyday life. Yet, for this promise to be realized, mobile
wellness systems need to be well designed, not only in terms of how
they implement specific behavior-change techniques but also, among
other factors, in terms of how much burden they put on the user,
how well they integrate into the user's daily life, and how they
address the user's privacy concerns. Designing for all of these
constraints is difficult, and it is often not clear what tradeoffs
particular design decisions have on how a wellness application is
experienced and used. Designing for Healthy Lifestyles: Design
Considerations for Mobile Technologies to Encourage Consumer Health
and Wellness assesses different design approaches to common
features of mobile wellness applications, and discusses the
tradeoffs that are inherent in those approaches. It also outlines
the key challenges that human-computer interaction researchers and
designers will need to address to move the state of the art for
mobile wellness technologies forward.
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