Empowering citizens for well-being and chronic disease management with wellness diary

Authors:
Elina Mattila;Ilkka Korhonen;Jukka H. Salminen;Aino Ahtinen;Esa Koskinen;Antti Särelä;Juha Pärkkä;Raimo Lappalainen
Affiliations:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland;VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland;Nokia Research Center, Helsinki and Tampere, Finland;Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian e-Health Research Center, Brisbane, Australia;VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland;Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on affective and pervasive computing for healthcare
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Chronic conditions closely related to lifestyles are the major cause of disability and death in the developed world. Behavior change is the key to managing well-being and preventing and managing chronic diseases. Wellness diary (WD) is a mobile application designed to support citizens in learning about their behavior, and both making and maintaining behavior changes. WD has been found acceptable, useful, and suitable for long-term use as a part of an intervention. When used independently, however, it does not seem to have enough engaging and motivating features to support adoption and long-term commitment. Themain improvement needs identified based on a review of WD-related studies were: personalization of the application to individual needs, increasing motivation during early use, maintaining motivation, and aiding in relapse recovery in long-term use. We present concepts to improve the personalization of WD as well as improvements to the feedback and interpretation of the self-observation data. We also present usage models on how this type of mobile application could be utilized.