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Motivating Healthy Water Intake through Prompting, Historical Information, and Implicit Feedback

2016/03/04 by Davide Neves, Donovan Costa, Neves, Davide +9
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #cs.HC

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.01367

In Adjunct Proceedings of Persuasive Technology 2016, Salzburg, Austria

arxiv created 2016/03/04 · arxiv updated 2016/03/07

Abstract

We describe Hydroprompt, a prototype for sensing and motivating healthy water intake in work environments. In a 3-week field deployment of Hydroprompt, we evaluate the effectiveness of three approaches to behavior change: historical information enabling users to compare their water intake lev- els across different times of day and days of week, implicit feedback providing subtle cues to users on the current hydration levels, and explicit prompting at- tempting to remind participants when hydration falls below acceptable levels or when substantial amount of time has elapsed since the last sip.

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