Paper Info
Title
A glanceable mobile avatar for behavior change
Abstract
We present a mobile avatar system designed to provide a constant user-avatar interface for health behavior change therapy. The presented Android application replaces the user's phone background with an animated avatar. The avatar's level of physical activity is made to match the physical activity level of the user. This activity level is inferred using a decision-tree-based frequency analysis of the built-in phone accelerometers. User physical activity data collected is also sent via a mobile analytics platform (Countly) to be stored in a server. Also included in our demo is a simple website which pulls information from this server and places a user's avatar among other people's avatars. In this display a user can see how their avatar's physical activity compares to others', and observe their real-life physical activity behavior directly impacting the performance of their avatar in the virtual world.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2534088.2534093
Wireless Health 2013
Keywords
Field
DocType
health behavior change therapy,mobile avatar system,activity level,real-life physical activity behavior,animated avatar,physical activity,user physical activity data,glanceable mobile avatar,mobile analytics platform,built-in phone accelerometers,physical activity level,security,emergency medical services
Android (operating system),Mobile analytics,Human–computer interaction,Phone,mHealth,Engineering,Avatar,Multimedia,Behavior change,Physical activity level
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tylar Murray162.00
Luis Jaimes222415.57
Eric B. Hekler312114.11
Donna Spruijt-Metz4778.30
Andrew Raij558941.86