Enhanced Reflection to Encourage Healthy Living
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In this paper, we present the Persuasive Mirror, an example of persuasive technology, created at the Accenture Technology Labs, which aims at encouraging people to keep up a healthy lifestyle. Personal reflection and visual awareness of daily activity are the means used to motivate people to do regular exercise and eat sensibly.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005