Paper Info
Title
Empowering citizens for well-being and chronic disease management with wellness diary
Abstract
Chronic conditions closely related to lifestyles are the major cause of disability and death in the developed world. Behavior change is the key to managing well-being and preventing and managing chronic diseases. Wellness diary (WD) is a mobile application designed to support citizens in learning about their behavior, and both making and maintaining behavior changes. WD has been found acceptable, useful, and suitable for long-term use as a part of an intervention. When used independently, however, it does not seem to have enough engaging and motivating features to support adoption and long-term commitment. The main improvement needs identified based on a review of WD-related studies were: personalization of the application to individual needs, increasing motivation during early use, maintaining motivation, and aiding in relapse recovery in long-term use. We present concepts to improve the personalization of WD as well as improvements to the feedback and interpretation of the self-observation data. We also present usage models on how this type of mobile application could be utilized.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TITB.2009.2037751
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
behavior change,medical records,weight loss,health care,risk management,death,developing world,self care,mobile computing,psychology,feedback,personalization,behavior changes
Data science,Health care,Mobile computing,Self-management,Knowledge management,Psychology,Risk management,Well-being,Developed country,Applied psychology,Personalization,Behavior change
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
1089-7771
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
2.38
7
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elina M. Mattila1544.05
I Korhonen235143.76
Jukka Salminen3867.40
Aino Ahtinen417315.29
Esa Koskinen5545.62
Antti Sarela6587.12
Juha Pärkkä751044.81
Raimo Lappalainen8989.83