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Authors:
Aranka Dol
Olga Kulyk
Hugo Velthuijsen
Lisette van Gemert
Tatjana van Strien
Keywords: personalized virtual coach; obesity; emotional eaters; persuasive technology; eHealth; mHealth; tailoring messages; coaching strategies
Abstract:
There is a growing number of eHealth interventions aiming at enhancing lifestyle to address obesity. However, the existing interventions do not take the emotional aspects of obesity into account. Forty percent of the overweight population is an emotional eater. Emotional eaters gain weight because of poor emotion regulation, not just due to bad eating habits. We aim at developing a personalized virtual coach ‘Denk je zèlf!’ providing support for self-regulation of emotions for young obese emotional eaters. This paper presents an eCoaching model and a research study protocol aiming at the validation of persuasive coaching strategies based on behavior change techniques. Ultimately, we aim at designing a personalized eCoaching framework, allowing us to optimally translate successful behavior change mechanisms and techniques, such as dialectical strategies, into personalized persuasive coaching strategies.
Pages: 101 to 104
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017
Publication date: March 19, 2017
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-540-1
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017