An Exploratory Study of Health Habit Formation Through Gamification
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Promotion of health habits help maintain and improve people’s health, reduce disease risks, and manage chronic illness. Regular healthy activities like walking, exercising, healthy eating, drinking water or taking medication on time require forming the new habits. Gamification techniques are promising in promoting healthy behaviors and delivering health promotion information. However, using ‘gaming’ elements such as badges, leader boards, health-related challenges in mobile applications to motivate and engage people to change health behavior is quite new. In this exploratory study we aimed to assess how game mechanics and dynamics influence formation of a habit through the mobile application.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1708.04418 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017