Designing for Psychological Change: Individuals’ Reward and Cost Valuations in Weight Management

BackgroundKnowledge 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...

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Main Authors: Hsu, Anne, Blandford, Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Access:http://www.jmir.org/2014/6/e138/