Developing cue-behavior association for habit formation: A qualitative study to explore the role of avatar in hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Electronic health (eHealth) has been widely adopted in chronic disease management. Prior studies focused on time-based reminders as a cue to facilitate behavior change intentions, ignoring the development of automatic cue-behavior associations via other cue types.

Objective

Hence, this study utilized avatar appearance as a visual-based cue to help establish the automatic association between appearance transformation and health behavior to form habits without intention.

Methods

To better understand users' attitudes and experiences toward applying changes in avatar appearance to develop cue-behavior associations for hypertensive patients. Fifteen participants were recruited in a 14-day experiment. After excluding one participant who dropped out of the experim

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11297519 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature