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WEnner: A Theoretically Motivated Approach for Tailored Coaching about Physical Activity

Authors:

Céline Clavel,

Steve Whittaker,

Anaïs Blacodon,

Jean-Claude MartinAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers

Pages 1669 - 1675

https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3274190

Published: 08 October 2018 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe a new theoretically motivated application framework, Wenner, for developing tailored interactions for an exercise-oriented well-being application. The framework allows us to conduct in-lab and 'in the wild' studies to directly deploy and evaluate the effects of our interventions. We describe two systems that have been developed using the framework. The first WennerStep is an individually tailored text based approach to delivering adaptive persuasive messaging using a smartwatch. The second WennerAgent, is a virtual embodied coach who adaptively reacts to user activity with emotionally appropriate responses. We conclude with a discussion in which we describe outstanding challenges for our approach and relate this to current work on Chatbot deployments for well-being.

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Mitchell EMaimone RCassells ATobin JDavidson PSmaldone AMamykina L(2021)Automated vs. Human Health CoachingProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34491735:CSCW1(1-37)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2021
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G. Mitchell EM. Heitkemper EBurgermaster ME. Levine MMiao YL. Hwang MM. Desai PCassells AN. Tobin JG. Tabak EJ. Albers DM. Smaldone AMamykina LKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)From Reflection to Action: Combining Machine Learning with Expert Knowledge for Nutrition Goal RecommendationsProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445555(1-17)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
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