Context awareness in a handheld exercise agent
Context awareness in a handheld exercise agent
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pmcj.2008.05.004
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Brown, Thomas
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作者：
Bickmore, Timothy W.;Mauer, Daniel;Brown, Thomas
工作朝着开发手持式健康咨询代理旨在促进身体活动描述。讨论了以前关于自动健康咨询师的工作，以及健康行为干预的流动性和上下文意识的支持。我们提出了一个通用的软件架构，用于快速设计和部署移动健康咨询代理。我们还描述了初步现场试验的结果，其中这种移动代理扮演锻炼教练的角色，旨在激励用户多走路。结果喜忧参半。我们发现，为检测步行而实施的上下文感知机制导致了更大的用户-代理社会联系，但在研究参与者中减少了步行。(C) 2008 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Work towards the development of a handheld health counseling agent designed to promote physical activity is described. Previous work on automated health counselors is discussed, along with the affordances of mobility and context awareness for health behavior interventions. We present a general-purpose software architecture for the rapid design and deployment of mobile health counseling agents. We also describe the results of an initial field trial in which such a mobile agent plays the role of an exercise coach designed to motivate users to walk more. Results were mixed. We found that the context awareness mechanism that was implemented for detecting walking led to greater user-agent social bonding, but less walking in study participants. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.