TY - GEN
T1 - Promoting physical activity through internet
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2007
AU - Zhu, Weimo
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Participation in regular physical activity (PA) is critical to sustaining good health. While a few attempts have been made to use internet-based interventions to promote PA, no system review has been conducted in determining the effectiveness of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to conduct a review under the framework of persuasive technology (PT). Based on a comprehensive of literature search, nice experimental studies were identified and evaluated using the PT functional triad defined by Fogg in 2003[1]. It was found that only two studies led to short-term impact in promoting PA and, furthermore, two studies have found that the intervention based traditional print materials worked better. From a perspective of PT, none of the studies designed its intervention based on the framework of captology and few took full advantages of PT functions. Designing new-generation, PT based internet intervention and examining related human factors are urgently needed.
AB - Participation in regular physical activity (PA) is critical to sustaining good health. While a few attempts have been made to use internet-based interventions to promote PA, no system review has been conducted in determining the effectiveness of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to conduct a review under the framework of persuasive technology (PT). Based on a comprehensive of literature search, nice experimental studies were identified and evaluated using the PT functional triad defined by Fogg in 2003[1]. It was found that only two studies led to short-term impact in promoting PA and, furthermore, two studies have found that the intervention based traditional print materials worked better. From a perspective of PT, none of the studies designed its intervention based on the framework of captology and few took full advantages of PT functions. Designing new-generation, PT based internet intervention and examining related human factors are urgently needed.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-77006-0_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-77006-0_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149139415
SN - 9783540770053
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 12
EP - 17
BT - Persuasive Technology - Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2007, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer
Y2 - 26 April 2007 through 27 April 2007
ER -