Hsu, A;
Blandford, A;
(2014)
Designing for psychological change: individuals’ reward and cost valuations in weight management.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
, 16
(6)
e138 - e138.
10.2196/jmir.3009.
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Abstract
Knowledge of the psychological constructs that underlie behavior offers valuable design opportunities for persuasive systems. We use the decision theory, which describes how behavior is underpinned by reward-cost valuations, as a framework for investigating such psychological constructs to deliver design objectives for weight management technologies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Designing for psychological change: individuals’ reward and cost valuations in weight management |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2196/jmir.3009 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3009 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1436171 |
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