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FatBelt: motivating behavior change through isomorphic feedback

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The ultimate problem of systems facilitating long-term health and fitness goals is the disconnect between an action and its eventual consequence. As the long-term effects of behavior change are not immediately apparent, it can be hard to motivate the desired behavior over a long period of time. As such, we introduce a system that uses physical feedback through a wearable device that inflates around the stomach as a response to calorie overconsumption, simulating the long-term weight-gain associated with over-eating. We tested a version of this system with 12 users over a period of 2 days, and found a significant decrease in consumption over a baseline period of the same length, suggesting that through physical response, FatBelt moved calorie intake drastically closer to participants' goals. Interviews with participants indicate that isomorphism to the long-term consequences was a large factor in the system's efficacy. In addition, the wearable, physical feedback was perceived as an extension of the user's body, an effect with great emotional consequences.

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Tate, Deborah F., Elizabeth H. Jackvony, and Rena R. Wing. "A randomized trial comparing human e-mail counseling, computer-automated tailored counseling, and no counseling in an Internet weight loss program." Archives of internal medicine
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Klasnja, Predrag, et al. "Using mobile personal sensing technologies to support health behavior change in everyday life: lessons learned." American Medical Informatics Association, 2009 for Ubi't

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    UIST '14 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2014
    150 pages
    ISBN:9781450330688
    DOI:10.1145/2658779
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    1. health and fitness
    2. physical feedback
    3. wearable computing

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    • (2017)Investigating Haptic Perception of and Physiological Responses to Air Vortex Rings on a User's CheekProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025501(3083-3094)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
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