Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Goal-setting considerations for persuasive technologies that encourage physical activity
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology
Constructing identities through storytelling in diabetes management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online social networks for personal informatics to promote positive health behavior
Proceedings of second ACM SIGMM workshop on Social media
Facebook for health: opportunities and challenges for driving behavior change
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing social media for change
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Review of Four Persuasive Design Models
International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications
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The ABC framework provides determinants for leveraging the motivational power of online social networks with the determinants for promoting health behaviour changes. We designed VivoSpace, a medium fidelity prototype of an online social network to promote healthy behaviour changes based on the guidelines for incorporating these determinants. We evaluated the determinants of appeal, belonging and commitment using both direct and indirect methods with 36 adult subjects. Indirect evaluation methods included a helping game experiment, adopted from experimental behavioural economics to measure indirect reciprocity evoked by VivoSpace, which is an important factor in developing belonging. Similarly, an in-group experiment was adopted to evaluate group commitment. Our results show that VivoSpace's design based on the ABC framework result in a strong degree of agreement with the appeal determinants with evidence for the promotion of belonging and commitment. Thus, we have evidence for the effectiveness of design elements for evoking behaviour change to improve health using an online social network.