Health care is under pressure due to an aging population with an increasing prevalence of
chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Smoking and physical inactivity are 2 …

Background Digital contact tracing apps have been deployed worldwide to limit the spread
of COVID-19 during this pandemic and to facilitate the lifting of public health restrictions …

Behavior change applications often assign their users activities such as tracking the number
of smoked cigarettes or planning a running route. To help a user complete these activities …

Fitness apps equipped with various persuasive features have become popular worldwide
due to the physical inactivity crisis. However, there is a limited understanding of the most …

Tailored motivational messages are helpful to motivate people in eHealth applications for
increasing physical activity, but it is not sufficiently clear how such messages can be …

Understanding user's behavior and their interactions with artificial-intelligent-based systems
is as important as analyzing the performance of the algorithms used in these systems. For …

The fact that individuals may react differently toward persuasive strategies gave birth to a
shift in persuasive technology (PT) design from the one-size-fits-all traditional approach to …

In the era of virtuality, the increasingly ubiquitous technology bears the challenge of
excessive user dependency, also known as user addiction. Augmented reality (AR) and …

Despite their prevalence in eHealth applications for behavior change, persuasive messages
tend to have small effects on behavior. Conditions or states (eg, confidence, knowledge …

Playing mobile games has become a very popular activity in our society today. Aside from
being a very common leisure-time activity, researchers have begun to design games to …