Title
Quitty: using technology to persuade smokers to quit
Abstract
Health is an important topic in HCI research with an increasing amount of health risks surrounding individuals and society at large. It is well known that smoking cigarettes can have serious health implications. The importance of this problem motivates investigation into the use of technology to encourage behavior change. Our study was designed to gather empirical knowledge about the role a \"quitting app\" can play in persuading people to quit smoking. Our purpose-built app Quitty introduces different content types from different content sources to study how they are perceived and motivate health behavior change. Findings from our field study show that tailored content and push-messages are considered the most important for persuading people to stop smoking. Based on our empirical findings, we propose six guidelines on how to design mobile applications to persuade smokers to quit.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2639189.2639195
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
smoking cessation,miscellaneous,persuasive technology,health behavior change,online participation
Persuasive technology,Empirical evidence,Advertising,Computer science,Smoking cessation,Online participation,Behavior change
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
9
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeni Paay149540.51
Jesper Kjeldskov21840141.58
Umachanger Brinthaparan380.60
Lars Lichon480.60
Stephan Rasmussen580.60
Nirojan Srikandaraja680.60
Wally Smith77510.71
Greg Wadley825423.14
Bernd Ploderer924732.32