From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions
mHealth interventions that deliver content via mobile phones represent a burgeoning area of health behavior change. The current paper examines two themes that can inform the underlying design of mHealth interventions: (1) mobile device functionality, which represents the technological toolbox availa...
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| author | Brian G. Danaher Håvar Brendryen John R. Seeley Milagra S. Tyler Tim Woolley |
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| description | mHealth interventions that deliver content via mobile phones represent a burgeoning area of health behavior change. The current paper examines two themes that can inform the underlying design of mHealth interventions: (1) mobile device functionality, which represents the technological toolbox available to intervention developers; and (2) the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions, which determines how intervention content can be delivered concurrently using mobile phones, personal computers, and other devices. We posit that developers of mHealth interventions will be able to better achieve the promise of this burgeoning arena by leveraging the toolbox and functionality of mobile devices in order to engage participants and encourage meaningful behavior change within the context of a carefully designed pervasive information architecture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92c686a45623415d8327cafe1a49c9342022-12-22T03:42:56ZengElsevierInternet Interventions2214-78292015-03-01219110110.1016/j.invent.2015.01.002From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventionsBrian G. Danaher0Håvar Brendryen1John R. Seeley2Milagra S. Tyler3Tim Woolley4Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, USANorwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayOregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, USAOregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR, USAIEQ Technology, Springfield, OR, USAmHealth interventions that deliver content via mobile phones represent a burgeoning area of health behavior change. The current paper examines two themes that can inform the underlying design of mHealth interventions: (1) mobile device functionality, which represents the technological toolbox available to intervention developers; and (2) the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions, which determines how intervention content can be delivered concurrently using mobile phones, personal computers, and other devices. We posit that developers of mHealth interventions will be able to better achieve the promise of this burgeoning arena by leveraging the toolbox and functionality of mobile devices in order to engage participants and encourage meaningful behavior change within the context of a carefully designed pervasive information architecture.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214782915000032mHealtheHealthToolboxBlackboxInternet interventionsPervasive information architecture |
| spellingShingle | Brian G. Danaher Håvar Brendryen John R. Seeley Milagra S. Tyler Tim Woolley From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions Internet Interventions mHealth eHealth Toolbox Blackbox Internet interventions Pervasive information architecture |
| title | From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions |
| title_full | From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions |
| title_fullStr | From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions |
| title_full_unstemmed | From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions |
| title_short | From black box to toolbox: Outlining device functionality, engagement activities, and the pervasive information architecture of mHealth interventions |
| title_sort | from black box to toolbox outlining device functionality engagement activities and the pervasive information architecture of mhealth interventions |
| topic | mHealth eHealth Toolbox Blackbox Internet interventions Pervasive information architecture |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214782915000032 |
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