NIT6130 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
ASSIGNMENT 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW
by
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Student ID: 4999999
Submitted to:
Dr. Rachid Hamadi
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... ii List of Figures............................................................................................................................... iii List of Tables ................................................................................................................................ iv Chapter 1 Literature Review .......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Broad Scan ........................................................................................................................... 2 1.1.1 Research journal ............................................................................................................ 2 1.1.2 Filing system ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1.3 Bibliographic file from broad scan ................................................................................. 5 1.2 Focused Review ................................................................................................................... 6 1.2.1 Updated Filing System................................................................................................... 7 1.2.2 Updated bibliographic file from focused review ............................................................. 7 1.3 Behavior Change Support of persuasiveness Approach ......................................................... 8 1.3.1 Background ................................................................................................................... 9 1.3.2 Framework and Method ................................................................................................. 9 1.3.3 Overview of the Proposed System ................................................................................ 11 1.4 Approach on M-Health Technology .................................................................................... 13 1.4.1 What is Mobile-Health? ............................................................................................... 14 1.4.2 Functioning and mechanism of Mobile Technologies ................................................... 14 1.4.3 Experiments ................................................................................................................ 16 1.4.4 Value deliverables ....................................................................................................... 17 1.4.6 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 18 1.5 Final Outline of the Literature review Chapter .................................................................... 19 1.6 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 19 List of References ........................................................................................................................ 21
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List of Figures
Figure 1: Storyboard illustrating reward and self-monitoring strategy (Orji, 2014)………………………………..11
Figure 2: A bar graph of the mean of individual strategies showing their overall persuasiveness. Error bars
represent a 95% confidence interval. (Orji, 2014)………………………………………………………………………………….12
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List of Tables
Table1 Research journal tasks……………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Table 2 Table of filling system…………………………………………………………………………….……………………. 4
Table3 Table of updated filling system………………………………………………………. ……….……………………7
Table 4 Participants’ demographic information (Orji & R., 2014)……………………………………………11
Table 5 Mean and Standard Deviations (SD), Mean Difference (MD), t-values(t2), and significant
levels for the individual strategies on a scale from 1(low) to7(high) for overall persuasiveness. (Orji
& R., 2014)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13
Table6 Classification of Examples from m-Health Technologies
(Bhargava & Tanghetti, 2016)………………………………………………………………………………………………..17
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Chapter 1
Literature Review
This assignment is about a literature review on a specific topic which is called “Persuasive Health
Technology for Human Well-Being”. I am reviewing two papers which are based on persuasive
health approach. I am choosing two different papers, the first one showing the conventional
approach as they examined the behavior change on story-board to see is if will be successful in
real time (Orji, 2014). In the second paper, I am reviewing if technology based approaches or
systems are more reliable or provide satisfactory results (Entner, 2012). To start from the
beginning there are some steps which I have to follow which are showing below:
Section 1.1 is broad scan where I mentioned about my research for papers, collection of papers
and also write bibliography of all the papers. Section 1.2 is based on focused scan where I filter
my research and find most relevant papers in them. Then again I updated the bibliography.
Sections 1.3 and 1.4 are Literature Review where I selected two papers and reviewed them.
Section 1.6 gives the outline of the literature review chapter. Finally, Section 1.6 is Introduction
of my topic.
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1.1 Broad Scan
In Broad scan I selected my topic and search on internet with different keywords. I searched on
different platform such as Google Scholar, IEEE, VU library. I found many papers and selected
twenty from them for next level.
1.1.1 Research journal
Table 1 Research journal tasks
Date Task Action Comment
7/04/16 Searched the
topic
Chose some
topics
Selected one
topic
9/04/16 Find papers on
different sources
like, Vu library
and scholar
Read them and
save few of them
Made the folder
to save related
work for
collection.
11/04/16 Literature
reading
Read two papers
from collection
Found Good
topic for follow
up
13/04/16 Literature
Reading
Read two more
papers
Not very
correlated with
my research.
Discard them.
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16/04/16 Select 4 final
documents
Read all of them
one by one
Select final two
for reviewing
17/04/16 Start assignment Started with
citation of
sources and
bibliography
Inserted the
citations related
my work
18/04/16 Start up to
reviewing the
first paper
Read all the
paper thrice
Put some
comments or
lines in my
literature review
section.
20/04/16 Reading of paper Made notes of
important
theories or
invention.
Put them on
paper in my own
words.
21/04/16 Review of second
paper
Read all the
paper
Picked some of
their important
work and
reviewed on my
document
24/04/16 Writing Wrote down the
two papers
Fill all the fields
and prepared the
assignment
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1.1.2 Filing system
Table 2 : Table of filling system
Source Keyword use No .Returned
Literature
No. Collected Literature
Scholar m-Health
Mobile Applications for the Health Sector
Persuasive technology
934
5450
17200
2
5
3
Vu library
Mobile Health
Persuasive technology to improve well-being
140000
10,500
3
2
IEEE Persuasive strategies 635 4
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1.1.3 Bibliographic file from broad scan
The below list of references should be alphabetically ordered (Rachid). Try to have around 25
papers.
1, J. M., Win1, K. T., Oinas-Kukkonen2, H., & Freeman, M. (2015). Persuasive Technology in Mobile Applications Promoting. New York: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016. a, M. K., b, S. Q., b, H. O.-K., & c, J. R. (2015). Wearable and mobile sensors connected to social media. 10. Bhargava, H. K., & Tanghetti, J. (2016). Mobile Health Technologies. Chen, W., & Paik, I. (2015). Toward Better Quality of Service Composition Based on a Global Social Service Network. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(5), 1466-1476. Christine Zhenwei Qiang, M. Y., Vicky Hausman, R. M., & Altman, D. (2012). Mobile Applications for Health Sector. Washington: * Corresponding author: 1818 H Street NW, MSN MC6-616, Washington DC 20433, USA. [email protected]. Entner, R. 2. (2012). “The Wireless Industry: The Essential Engine of Us Economic Growth.”. US: Recon Analytics . Freeman1, Matthews1, J., Win1, K. T., Oinas-Kukkonen2, H., & Mark. (2015). Persuasive Technology in Mobile Applications Promoting. SpringerLink, 13. Guo, Y., Yang, M., Hu, J., & Tao, L. (2016). Persuasive tech in keeping chronic patients’ willingness in health. Advances in Energy, Environment and Materials Science – Wang & Zhao (Eds), 4. Halko1, S., & Kientz1, J. A. (2010). Personality and Persuasive Technology: An Exploratory Study on Health-Promoting Mobile Applications. (pp. 1-13). Seattle, Washington, USA: ResearchGate.
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Higgins, & J.P. (2016). Smartphone applications for patients' health and fitness. The American journal of medicine, 129(1),, 11-19. IJsselsteijn, W., Kort, Y. d., Midden, C., & Berry Eggen. (2015). Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being:. The Netherlands : Eindhoven University of Technology,. keen, S., & Roberts, N. (2016). Preliminary evidence for the use and efficacy of mobile health applications in managing posttraumatic stress disorder symptom. palgrave-journals, 8. Kimbrough, S. O., Bieber, M. P., & Bhargava., H. K. (1990). "The Coast Guard's KSS Project.". interfaces20(6), 5-16. M. Vazquez, J. A., Nieto, J. I., & Sanchez, J. D. (2016). Model for Personalization of mHealth Systems. Orji, & R. (2014, may). Exploring the persuasiveness of behavior change support strategies and possible gender differences. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS2014), Padova, Italy., 1-17. Qiang, C. Z., Yamamichi, & Masatake. (2012). Mobile Applications for the Health sector. Schnall, Rebecca, & Bakken, S. (2015). mHealth Technology as a Persuasive Tool for Treatment, Care. ResearchGate, 9. Steinberg, R. J., Bonnet, J., Modarai, F., & George, A. (2016). Mobile health devices: will patients actually. Journal of the AmericaSnh aMw ReJ,deitcala. Jl AImnMfoedrImnforamtiAcsssoc A20s16s;0o:1c–5i.adtoii:o10n.1 0A93d/javmaian/occv1e8 6A, BcriecfeCosmsm upniucabtiolnished, 5. Steinberg2, R. J., J. B., & George3, A. (2016). Mobile health devices. Mobile health devices: will patients actually use them?, 5.
1.2 Focused Review
Research more on papers related with my topic. Filter some papers and select them for my further
writing. From these 10 papers I select final two papers.
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1.2.1 Updated Filing System
The following table contains the updated filing system.
Table3: Table of updated filling system
Source Keyword use No .Returned
Literature
No. Collected Literature
Scholar m-Health
Persuasive technology
934
17200
2
2
VU library
Mobile Health
Persuasive technology to improve well-being
140000
10,500
2
3
IEEE Persuasive strategies 635 1
1.2.2 Updated bibliographic file from focused review
The below list of references should be alphabetically ordered (Rachid). Try to have around 25
papers.
1, J. M., Win1, K. T., Oinas-Kukkonen2, H., & Freeman, M. (2015). Persuasive Technology in Mobile Applications Promoting. New York: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016.
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Bhargava, H. K., & Tanghetti, J. (2016). Mobile Health Technologies. Entner, R. 2. (2012). “The Wireless Industry: The Essential Engine of Us Economic Growth.”. US: Recon Analytics . Freeman1, Matthews1, J., Win1, K. T., Oinas-Kukkonen2, H., & Mark. (2015). Persuasive Technology in Mobile Applications Promoting. SpringerLink, 13. Guo, Y., Yang, M., Hu, J., & Tao, L. (2016). Persuasive tech in keeping chronic patients’ willingness in health. Advances in Energy, Environment and Materials Science – Wang & Zhao (Eds), 4. Halko1, S., & Kientz1, J. A. (2010). Personality and Persuasive Technology: An Exploratory Study on Health-Promoting Mobile Applications. (pp. 1-13). Seattle, Washington, USA: ResearchGate. Higgins, & J.P. (2016). Smartphone applications for patients' health and fitness. The American journal of medicine, 129(1),, 11-19. IJsselsteijn, W., Kort, Y. d., Midden, C., & Berry Eggen. (2015). Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being:. The Netherlands : Eindhoven University of Technology,. Orji, & R. (2014, may). Exploring the persuasiveness of behavior change support strategies and possible gender differences. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS2014), Padova, Italy., 1-17. Qiang, C. Z., Yamamichi, & Masatake. (2012). Mobile Applications for the Health sector.
1.3 Behavior Change Support of persuasiveness Approach
Human behavior is uncertain. It relies on person to person. Even there is a huge difference
between man’s reaction and woman’s reaction. Persuasive technology focuses on human
behavior which impact on their health and fitness. This research is focused on behavior Change
Support System which will locate the idea of getting fitter and healthy. For the experiment (Orji,
2014) they used some strategies to find out the problems and purposed some solutions.
Section1.3.1 lighting up on the background of the topic. Their they briefly mention methodology
and approaches. Section 1.3.2 showing the method and framework by which they researched and
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creating methods for approaches. Section 1.3.3 is overview of purposed system, some graphs or
tables to show the real time factors. Section 1.3.4 is Discussion part where I include pros and cons
and conclude the paper.
1.3.1 Background
Today’s fast paced life leads so many health problems. For health care people have to aware about
it. In present, researchers finding out the persuasive techniques for health care system. Human
behavior also has deep impact on the techniques. In this paper they compared behaviors of both
males and females. They tried to explain that persuasiveness is vary person to person. Females
reacted differently on different things or matters on different times. And males as well vice versa.
As they picked numerous methodologies yet the genuine idea is to figure shared results. As
everybody has distinctive options or tastes so they have diverse methodology for anything that
comes to them. Be that as it may, here scientists attempted to discover one methodology which
will fit to all.
The other one approach is called group-based tailoring as they believe that gender is a reliable
approach. This research added up different as key interest like; physical active, health
consciousness and behavior. These strategies are under persuasive system design. They had
experiment the strategies. Some of them are very influential and the other is less and as it proved
that in women expressiveness is far different from men. They used 10 persuasive technologies
which were divided in competition, comparison, cooperation, customization, personalization,
praise, simulation, Self-monitoring and Feedback, suggestion, and reward.
1.3.2 Framework and Method
For the experiment they used storyboard as storyboard provided actual results and there will be
no bias decision through this experiment. They thought story board is much efficient. It also
provides a common or comfortable platform so that people of any background can easily
understand it. Figure 1; shows examples of two of the ten used persuasive strategies, reward and
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self-monitoring. The idea of this story board was that people could easily understand the language
and provided the full information which was asked through story board or application. It was
interesting because people felt comfort and motivation. Before that they asked some
comprehensive question to get the idea that if people understood the system or not than they
asked main 4 questions.
The questions were inspect using participant agreement with a 7-point Likert scale ranging
From” 1=strongly disagree” to “7=strongly agree”
Figure1: Storyboard illustrating reward and self-monitoring strategy (Orji, 2014)
They used AMT (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) which consider to be most acceptable method for
gathering information.
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Table 4: Participants’ demographic information (Orji, 2014)
Total participants=1108
Gender Females (533, 48%), Males (575, 52%)
Age Age 18-25 (418, 38%), 26-35 (406, 37%),
36-45 (168, 15%), Over 45 (116, 10%)
Education Less than High School (12, 1%), High
School Graduate (387, 35%), College
Diploma (147, 13%) Bachelor’s Degree
(393, 35%),Master’s Degree (141, 13%
1.3.3 Overview of the Proposed System
Their analysis and results were based on participant’s interest or understanding towards the
system. They had to assured that participants respond all questions. They used chi-squard tests
to identify the responses. Results were significant at p<001. Second, picked consistency of scale
using cronbach’s alpha(α). Third is uniqueness of responses. They used EFA.
The graph below shows the results personalization and simulations are more persuasive.
Customization is below than the neutral line.
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Figure 2: A bar graph of the mean of individual strategies showing their overall persuasiveness. Error
bars represent a 95% confidence interval. (Orji, 2014)
Table 5: Mean and Standard Deviations (SD), Mean Difference (MD), t-values(t2), and significant levels
for the individual strategies on a scale from 1(low) to7(high) for overall persuasiveness. (Orji, 2014)
N=1108
Mean SD MD t2 P COOP 4.40 1.76 0.41 7.69 <.0001 CUST 3.35 1.75 -0.65 12.38 <.0001 PERS 4.84 1.64 0.83 17.04 <.0001 PRAS 4.22 1.75 0.21 4.01 <.0001 REWD 3.91 1.82 -0.09 1.67 <.0960 SIML 4.62 1.72 0.62 11.88 <.0001 CMPTCMPR 4.40 1.72 0.40 7.81 <.0001 SEMSUG 4.31 1.59 0.31 6.57 <.0001
This table represent the idea that men and women recommended some strategies on high
persuasive and other on low persuasive. Even though the persuasive measures are different from
both sides ,then examined the communication between gender and behavior technology; With
the t-test, they came to know that from 10 PT strategies, some technologies are very convincing
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and some of them are not so convincing. Approaches towards the persuasiveness are totally
different from men to women. They performed repeated-Measures ANOVA (RM-ANOVA). To
explore more significant differences between males and females with respect to the
persuasiveness of various strategies performed the Repeated-Measure ANOVA (RM-ANOVA) on
data. The investigation was performed after approving information for ANOVA suppositions,
without any infringement.
1.3.4 Discussion
This paper is basically shown up the behavior change in different gender. For that they used story
board which helped people to eat healthy and reduce unwanted calories from their diet.
Storyboard is different but in reality nobody knows but will be the actual results or figures. May
be people feel boring or tough after some time if the system shows the repeated results or
incorrect results. If anytime they find that results are not true or may be if they getting negative
remarks they will try to ignore or stop using this application. The main thing this is just story-board
not actual implementation. That will be the other case. And behavior change cannot be measure
in isolation. The actual outcomes are that which will create through technology. In today’s time
mobiles are important part of life and if we develop an application by which people can measure
or keep eye on their fitness and eating habits that will be much reliable, actual and trustable
consequences measurements.
1.4 Approach on M-Health Technology
My second paper is based on mobile applications which are available on Google Play or i-tunes
(Entner, 2012). In today’s period 1000’s of application are on just one touch. This paper provides
solution or structure of three phase mobile health technology. It gives some ideas about
applications, their usages, techniques and functions.
Section 1.4.1 explains about mobile health. What it is? What it include. Section 1.4.2 tells us about
the functioning of the technology. How it works. Section1.4.3 showing some results or
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experiments through some case studies. Section1.4.4 providing values after the experiments.
1.4.5 is about system proposal. And section 1.4.6 is conclusion of the paper.
1.4.1 What is Mobile-Health?
Mobile plays crucial role in today’s life. Most of the people around the world use mobile phones.
And now these normal mobile phones are converting in Smartphone. These Smartphone’s have
so many features that it becomes easy to approach anything on single click. They are very
powerful and have tremendous processing powers. Everything is available on mobile phones
whether they are concerned study, entertainment, games etc. So, why the health industry will
miss it? In today’s time health care is integral part of economic sector. In recent study, the U.S.
wireless industry by Roger Entner (2012) found that cell phones enhance laborer efficiency in four
basic ways: diminishing inefficient travel time, enhancing logistics, enabling speedier choice
making and engage little organizations and improving communication. Entner projects
productivity gains from wireless in the medical industry to reach $305 billion over the next 10
years (Entner, 2012).
1.4.2 Functioning and mechanism of Mobile Technologies
Mobiles have capacity but they also have complexity which bothers the developers or adopters
to get the proper knowledge about it. In this paper, they are grouping the interventional m
solutions. They make sub-parts like; apps, sensors and devices and explained about them, their
capabilities and work. After that they combine apps and devices. Where information is collect by
sensor record in apps and run on devices. Medical health institutes, companies are deeply
attached and taking part in this industry as this industry growing day by day. These institutions
are involving in the process of development and deployment also.
These apps can be beneficial for both patients and doctors as patients will e more aware about
their health, they can monitor and improve by their selves and also for doctor is easy to examine
the patients and the medical history on one click. But most of the apps are “Stand-alone” because
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so many applications don’t have link between doctor and patient. Thousands of apps are available
in market but not all of them are approved from FDA. FDA has some fundamental measurements
based on that apps can be certified.
All the devices, apps and sensors have some functions because they set a target to detect the
diseases and control them. m-health technologies have various functions by which they examine
the behavior change and improving health conditions.
Functions of m-health technologies are;
Functions of m-Health Technologies
● Inform
● Advise
● Communicate
● Measure
● Monitor
● Motivate
Apps can inform the patients about their disease and medication. It can gives advice to meet the
doctors or symptoms. It also can make possible to communicate between doctor and patient.
Communication can also be possible through e-mail or direct mail to doctor’s system. Patients can
monitor their pulse rate, heart-beat and diabetes through sensors. By getting all the information
patient and doctor can measure the condition of body and can make better decision. These
technologies can motivate people to take care of their selves and take precautions.
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1.4.3 Experiments
In this paper they examine some case studies and categorized them in different sections.
Table6 shows the m-health technology and its different aspects and functions below. They
experimented with six health technologies based on their type level of integration and of course
what and how they work.
Table6: Classification of Examples from m-Health Technologies (Bhargava & Tanghetti, 2016)
m-health
Technology
Type of technology Level of institutional
integration
Function
Ovia Pregnancy
Tracker
App Low
Inform
Advise
Measure
Monitor
Motivate
Mango Health App Low Inform
Measure
Motivate
Ginger.io App and Sensor High Advise
Communicate
Measure
Monitor
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AliveCor App and Devices Medium Communicate
Measure
Monitor
BlueStar by
WellDoc
App High Inform
Advise
Communicate
Measure
Monitor
Motivate
Mayo clinic Fitbit
Recovery Study
Sensor Medium Measure
Monitor
1.4.4 Value deliverables
In earlier I mentioned that they worked on framework which has three dimensions; these
dimensions are institutional incorporation, technology and operational efficiency. They
mentioned different case studies where they found different solutions and different levels of
values. Those levels are: Difference in behavioral change, Medication devotion, Change in health
system utilization , Quicker analysis, Patient health outcome, Patient satisfaction ("feel good") by
(Bhargava & Tanghetti, 2016).
1.4.5 System proposals
For positive results it is mandatory to believe in that thing and also follow that without any doubt.
Positivity is must. In today’s time mobiles technology growing very fast. Every day is a new day in
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the field of technology. Operating systems, processers are very powerful in today’s modern smart
phones. And because of that there are huge health technologies here and everyone have different
effect or impacts. These technologies then experimented by these frameworks which provide
values. They mentioned here three purposes of developing the system which are purposed by
(Kimbrough et al. 1990) Convenience, Computation, and Chestnuts. They explained these three
purposes.
In recent days, mobiles are so convenient and easy to use that people can use them even without
any special knowledge. This makes people more confident and motivated that they easily adapt
new changes or response to observed data. Most of the apps are user friendly. Computation is
also makes these technologies more valuable. Patients’ progress, blood pressure, storage or data
gathering are the features of these technologies which will increase with the computation. It is
easy for the doctor to know about the patient’s condition or progress. This technique provides all
information about the person to his doctor. Chestnut is high value solution. Chestnut is not only
for correct measurements, correct solution but also for right time. It measures all the conditions
and also provides right guidance and right doctor. Time is a crucial factor in any field.
1.4.6 Conclusion
M-health technology provides great solution and has great impact on people who follow the apps.
But most of the apps are not approved from FDA as they are not linked with doctors. People who
using them they believing on the results which are providing by apps but how much they are true
or appropriate. There is a doubt about it. Because if a specialist is not connected with you then
how can it will be necessary that the solutions which are provided by these apps are relevant and
will suit to your body.
Technologies are good inventions in today’s time and they are also motivating, challenging to the
people who wants to get fit and healthy. They are blessing for them who don’t have time to go to
specialists or dietitians. It’s easy for them to reach on special advice on one click at home. But
every-thing has pros and cons. We can’t fully depend on these technologies or apps. Personal
guidance or personal interaction has its own great impact and value. Every app may be differ from
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other. Some of them consuming so much time and money as well so there is uncertainty regarding
the results then why people have to spend their time and money.
1.5 Final Outline of the Literature review Chapter
1. Introduction
2. Selected Paper1
2.1
2.2
3. Selected Paper2
3.1
3.2
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
1.6 Introduction
My topic is persuasiveness mobile health technologies for human well being. Mobile-health
technology is a vast and new area of research. I searched so many papers and from them I selected
two papers which are based on both persuasiveness and mobile -health application. First paper,
examine the human behavior over persuasiveness of health technology and on the other hand
my second papers explained the different mobile health technologies solutions, inventions,
techniques, usages etc. it also provide the framework of applications. About development and
deployment. M-health is beneficiary in today’s time and it has some levels and values which are
discussed in this paper.
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List of References
Orji, R. (2014). Exploring the persuasiveness of behavior change support strategies and possible gender differences. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS2014), Padova, Italy., 1-17 Bhargava, H. K., & Tanghetti, J. (2016). Mobile Health Technologies. Kimbrough, Steven O, Clark W Pritchett, Michael P Bieber, and Hemant K Bhargava (1990). “The Coast Guard’s KSS Project.” Interfaces 20 (6): 5–16. (Entner, 2012)