Context awareness in a handheld exercise agent

被引：28

作者：

Bickmore, Timothy W. ^{[1
]}

Mauer, Daniel ^{[1
]}

Brown, Thomas ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Northeastern Univ, Coll Comp & Informat Sci, Boston, MA 02115 USA

来源：

PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING | 2009年 / 5卷 / 03期

关键词：

Social interface; Relational agent; Health behavior change; Exercise; Physical activity; Walking;

D O I：

10.1016/j.pmcj.2008.05.004

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Work towards the development of a handheld health counseling agent designed to promote physical activity is described. Previous work on automated health counselors is discussed, along with the affordances of mobility and context awareness for health behavior interventions. We present a general-purpose software architecture for the rapid design and deployment of mobile health counseling agents. We also describe the results of an initial field trial in which such a mobile agent plays the role of an exercise coach designed to motivate users to walk more. Results were mixed. We found that the context awareness mechanism that was implemented for detecting walking led to greater user-agent social bonding, but less walking in study participants. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：226 / 235

页数：10

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