Christopher Helf
ABSTRACT
Smartphone-based applications are increasingly being used to combat unhealthy habits resulting in obesity or reduced physical mobility. In turn, gamification has been identified as a useful tool to motivate individuals towards behavioural change. However, both health professionals and game developers are currently working on island solutions addressing individual problems due to the lack of efficient frameworks enabling cooperation in this domain. This has resulted in a large number of mHealth apps, each using different motivational techniques, metrics and health data. In this paper we propose a unified user-centred framework which is capable of running third-party developer's apps within a sandbox. Using this approach, we can mitigate often voiced privacy and safety concerns and simultaneously tailor health-interventions using content from developers as well as user preferences and environment in order to facilitate internalisation of healthy lifestyles. Apart from this, we provide indications for operationalizing our conceptual framework in future work.
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