GuideView: a system for developing structured, multimodal, multi-platform persuasive applications

  • Authors:
  • M Sriram Iyengar;Jose F Florez-Arango;Carlos A Garcia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas, Fannin, Houston, TX;University of Texas, Fannin, Houston, TX;University of Texas, Fannin, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Persuasive technologies for healthcare have great potential to beneficially impact the well-being of individuals with chronic disease, support self-care, and encourage adherence to correct treatment guidelines by non-physician care providers such as medics and community health workers. However healthcare poses special challenges with respect to design and development of persuasive applications. We describe GuideView, a system now undergoing beta testing, that enables interactive, structured, multi-modal delivery of clinical advice and the authoring of such content. Information and advice is presented simultaneously using voice, pictures, video, and animation. GuideView is multi-platform, executing on desktops, over the web, on Pocket PCs, and on Windows Mobile cell-phones.