Integrating User-Centered Design and Behavioral Science to Design a Mobile Intervention for Obesity and Binge Eating: Mixed Methods Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accounting for how end users engage with technologies is imperative for designing an efficacious mobile behavioral intervention.

Objective

This mixed methods analysis examined the translational potential of user-centered design and basic behavioral science to inform the design of a new mobile intervention for obesity and binge eating.

Methods

A total of 22 adults (7/22, 32% non-Hispanic White; 8/22, 36% male) with self-reported obesity and recurrent binge eating (≥12 episodes in 3 months) who were interested in losing weight and reducing binge eating completed a prototyping design activity over 1 week. Leveraging evidence from behavioral economics on choice architecture, participants chose treatment strategies from 20 options (aligned with treatment targets

SUBMITTER: Graham AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8145081 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature