Designing for Healthy Lifestyles: Design Considerations for Mobile Technologies to Encourage Consumer Health and Wellness - Couverture souple

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9781601988003: Designing for Healthy Lifestyles: Design Considerations for Mobile Technologies to Encourage Consumer Health and Wellness
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ISBN 10 : 1601988001 ISBN 13 : 9781601988003
Editeur : now publishers Inc, 2014

Synopsis

As the rates of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease continue to rise, the development of effective tools that can help people adopt and sustain healthier habits is becoming ever more important. Mobile computing holds great promise for providing effective support for helping people manage their health in everyday life. Yet, for this promise to be realized, mobile wellness systems need to be well designed, not only in terms of how they implement specific behavior - change techniques but also, among other factors, in terms of how much burden they put on the user, how well they integrate into the user's daily life, and how they address the user's privacy concerns. Designing for all of these constraints is difficult, and it is often not clear what trade-offs particular design decisions have on how a wellness application is experienced and used. This book provides an account of the different design approaches to common features of mobile wellness applications and discusses the trade-offs inherent in those approaches. It also outlines the key challenges that HCI researchers and designers will need to address to move the state of the art for mobile wellness technologies forward.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

As the rates of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease continue to rise, the development of effective tools that can help people adopt and sustain healthier habits is becoming ever more important. Mobile computing holds great promise for providing effective support for helping people manage their health in everyday life. Yet, for this promise to be realized, mobile wellness systems need to be well designed, not only in terms of how they implement specific behavior - change techniques but also, among other factors, in terms of how much burden they put on the user, how well they integrate into the user's daily life, and how they address the user's privacy concerns. Designing for all of these constraints is difficult, and it is often not clear what trade-offs particular design decisions have on how a wellness application is experienced and used. This book provides an account of the different design approaches to common features of mobile wellness applications and discusses the trade-offs inherent in those approaches. It also outlines the key challenges that HCI researchers and designers will need to address to move the state of the art for mobile wellness technologies forward.

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Éditeur
now publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1601988001
ISBN 13 
9781601988003
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
150
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1601987803 ISBN 13 :  9781601987808
Editeur : now publishers Inc, 2014
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