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Human health depends to a large extent on their behavior. Adopting a healthy lifestyle often requires behavior change. This paper presents a computational model of behavior change that describes formal relations between the determinants of behavior change, based on existing psychological theories. This model is developed to function as the core of a reasoning mechanism of an intelligent support system that is able to create theory-based intervention messages. The system first tries to determine the reason of the occurrence of the unwanted behavior by asking short questions via a mobile phone application and by gathering information from an online lifestyle diary. The system then attempts to influence the user using tailored information and persuasive motivational messages.
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Klein, M., Mogles, N., van Wissen, A. (2011). Why Won’t You Do What’s Good for You? Using Intelligent Support for Behavior Change. In: Salah, A.A., Lepri, B. (eds) Human Behavior Understanding. HBU 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7065. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25446-8_12
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