Start Date
12-17-2013
Description
There is overwhelming evidence of patients’ low compliance with taking medication and keeping health related diets. In this work, we explore Visual, Interactive, and Personalized-content (VIP) feedback, as a novel method for increasing a patient's compliance with health care prescriptions. We hypothesize that VIP feedback positively affects intentions to change health behavior by affecting the users' sense of involvement, self-efficacy and comprehension, and, thereby, affecting their intentions to change behavior. We then test the mediation model through a longitudinal experiment in which the subjects used a nutritional information system that supplied them with personal medical information (n=155). The results support the mediation model and present interesting implications for design. VIP feedback offers an opportunity to develop long-term intervention effects on users’ behavior.
Recommended Citation
Ronen, Hadar and Teeni, Dov, "The Impact of HCI Design on Health Behavior: The Case for Visual, Interactive, Personalized-content (VIP) Feedback" (2013). ICIS 2013 Proceedings. 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2013/proceedings/HumanComputerInteraction/6
The Impact of HCI Design on Health Behavior: The Case for Visual, Interactive, Personalized-content (VIP) Feedback
There is overwhelming evidence of patients’ low compliance with taking medication and keeping health related diets. In this work, we explore Visual, Interactive, and Personalized-content (VIP) feedback, as a novel method for increasing a patient's compliance with health care prescriptions. We hypothesize that VIP feedback positively affects intentions to change health behavior by affecting the users' sense of involvement, self-efficacy and comprehension, and, thereby, affecting their intentions to change behavior. We then test the mediation model through a longitudinal experiment in which the subjects used a nutritional information system that supplied them with personal medical information (n=155). The results support the mediation model and present interesting implications for design. VIP feedback offers an opportunity to develop long-term intervention effects on users’ behavior.