behavior change

Recommendations as Challenges: Estimating Required Effort and User Ability for Health Behavior Change Recommendations

Helma Torkamaan, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract Recommender Systems use implicit and explicit user feedback to recommend desired products or items online. When the recommendation item is a task or behavior change activity, several variables, such as the difficulty of the task and users’ ability to achieve it, in addition to user preferences and needs, determine the […]

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Integrating Behavior Change and Persuasive Design Theories into an Example Mobile Health Recommender System

Helma Torkamaan, Jürgen Ziegler Abstract Behavior change for health promotion is a complex process that requires a high level of personalization, which health recommender systems, as an emerging area, have been trying to address. Despite the advantages of behavior change theories in explaining individuals’ behavior and standardizing the behavior change program overall, these theoretical models

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