Analyzing Persuasive Technology in Healthcare: Research Paper Analysis

This report provides an analysis of two research papers focused on the application of persuasive technology within the healthcare sector. The first paper explores the use of health wristbands, discussing their impact on user behavior, social effects, and the long-term considerations of such gadgets. It includes a review of research journals, filing systems, and bibliographic files to support its findings. The second paper investigates the 'health bar,' an ambient display designed to improve the well-being of office workers, addressing the health risks associated with prolonged computer use. The report examines user studies and analyzes the health bar as a persuasive technology, aiming to motivate employees to take breaks and improve their health. The analysis covers literature reviews, survey results, and the effectiveness of persuasive technology in promoting behavioral changes within the health sector, providing a comprehensive overview of the current trends and future possibilities of this technology.

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Name of Student
Name of University
Author’s Note
Contents

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1.1 Broad Scan.................................................................................................................................3
1.1.1 Research journal.................................................................................................................3
1.1.2 Filling System.....................................................................................................................4
1.1.3 Bibliographic file from broad scan.........................................................................................5
1.2 Focused Review.........................................................................................................................5
1.2.1 Updated Filing System.......................................................................................................5
1.3 Selected Paper 1.........................................................................................................................5
1.3.1 The Behavioral change to support the persuasiveness approach............................................6
1.3.2 Background.........................................................................................................................6
1.3.3 Social effects and sharing of data.......................................................................................8
1.3.4 Consideration of such health gadgets.................................................................................9
1.4 Selected paper 2.........................................................................................................................9
1.4.3 The user study of the health bar........................................................................................12
1.4.4 The analysis of the health bar as persuasive technology..................................................12
1.5 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................12
1.6 Introduction..............................................................................................................................13

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LIST OF THE FIGURES
Figure 1: The Health Band of the Nike Company..........................................................................7
Figure 2: The Result from the Survey.............................................................................................8
Figure 3: The health bar which is installed below the monitor.....................................................11
Figure 4: Health bar at 50 percent charge......................................................................................11
Figure 5: Health bat at 25 percent charge......................................................................................11

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List of the tables
Table 1: The research journal…………………………………………………………….............6
Table 2: the filing system................................................................................................................7

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Literature Review
The following assignment is analysis of the two research paper which discusses about the effect
of the persuasive technology in the health sector. Persuasive technology has been designed in
keeping the mind of the human behavior. The behavior of the human changes from one person to
another so the persuasive technology equipment has been designed to change the opinion of the
person through the persuasion and the surrounding influence not forcibly. The firs tpaer focuses
in the usage of the health wrist band while the second paper focuses upon application of the
health bar.

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1.1 Broad Scan
In the broad scan the topic is selected and searched on the internet through various keywords.
The search platform includes google scholar, VU library and IEEE. There are many literature
papers were found out of which two are taken in this document for analysis.
1.1.1 Research journal
Date Task Action Comment
Please Fill Searched the topic Chose some topics Selected one topic
Find papers on
different sources like,
scholar
Read them and save
few of them
Made the folder to
save related work for
collection.
Literature reading Read two papers
from collection
Found Good topic for
follow up
Literature Reading Read two more
papers
Not very correlated
with my research.
Discard them.
Select 4 final
documents
Read all of them one
by one
Select final two for
reviewing
Start assignment Started with citation
of sources and
bibliography
Inserted the citations
related my work
Start up to reviewing
the first paper
Read all the paper
thrice
Put some comments
or lines in my
literature review
section.
Reading of paper Made notes of
important theories or
Put them on paper in

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invention my own words.
Review of second
paper
Read all the paper Picked some of their
important work and
reviewed on my
document
Writing Wrote down the two
papers
Fill all the fields and
prepared the
assignment
Table 1: The research journal
1.1.2 Filling System
Source Keywords No. of returned literature No. collected literature
Google Scholar Persuasive
Persuasive health
132,000
47,000
4
2
VU Library Persuasive technology to
improve well-being
10,500 3
IEEE Persuasive Health
Technology for Human
Well-Being
50,674 5
Google Scholar Health technology issues 106,500 5

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Table 2: the filing system
1.1.3 Bibliographic file from broad scan
Azar, K.M., Lesser, L.I., Laing, B.Y., Stephens, J., Aurora, M.S., Burke, L.E. and Palaniappan,
L.P., 2013. Mobile applications for weight management: theory-based content
analysis. American journal of preventive medicine, 45(5), pp.583-589.
Berkowitz, E.N., 2016. Essentials of health care marketing. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Dixon-Woods, M., McNicol, S. and Martin, G., 2012. Ten challenges in improving quality in
healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant
literature. BMJ Qual Saf, pp.bmjqs-2011.
Fritz, T., Huang, E.M., Murphy, G.C. and Zimmermann, T., 2014, April. Persuasive technology
in the real world: a study of long-term use of activity sensing devices for fitness. In Proceedings
of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 487-496). ACM.
GK, R. and Baskaran, K., 2012. A survey on futuristic health care system: WBANs. Procedia
Engineering, 30, pp.889-896.
Klasnja, P. and Pratt, W., 2012. Healthcare in the pocket: mapping the space of mobile-phone
health interventions. Journal of biomedical informatics, 45(1), pp.184-198.
Li, C.Y., 2013. Persuasive messages on information system acceptance: A theoretical extension
of elaboration likelihood model and social influence theory. Computers in Human
Behavior, 29(1), pp.264-275.

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Mateevitsi, V., Reda, K., Leigh, J. and Johnson, A., 2014, March. The health bar: a persuasive
ambient display to improve the office worker's well being. In Proceedings of the 5th Augmented
Human International Conference (p. 21). ACM.
Mintz, J., 2013. Additional key factors mediating the use of a mobile technology tool designed to
develop social and life skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evaluation of the 2nd
HANDS prototype. Computers & Education, 63, pp.17-27.
O'brien, T., Troutman-Jordan, M., Hathaway, D., Armstrong, S. and Moore, M., 2015.
Acceptability of wristband activity trackers among community dwelling older adults. Geriatric
Nursing, 36(2), pp.S21-S25.
Orji, R., Mandryk, R.L. and Vassileva, J., 2015, June. Gender, age, and responsiveness to
Cialdini’s persuasion strategies. In International Conference on Persuasive Technology (pp. 147-
159). Springer, Cham.
Patil, V., Varma, N., Vinchurkar, S. and Patil, B., 2014, December. NFC based health
monitoring and controlling system. In Wireless Computing and Networking (GCWCN), 2014
IEEE Global Conference on (pp. 133-137). IEEE.
Shortliffe, E.H. and Cimino, J.J. eds., 2013. Biomedical informatics: computer applications in
health care and biomedicine. Springer Science & Business Media.
Yoganathan, D. and Kajanan, S., 2013. Persuasive Technology for Smartphone Fitness Apps.
In PACIS (p. 185).

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1.2 Focused Review
1. Fritz, T., Huang, E.M., Murphy, G.C. and Zimmermann, T., 2014, April. Persuasive
technology in the real world: a study of long-term use of activity sensing devices for
fitness. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (pp. 487-496). ACM.
2. Mateevitsi, V., Reda, K., Leigh, J. and Johnson, A., 2014, March. The health bar: a
persuasive ambient display to improve the office worker's well being. In Proceedings of
the 5th Augmented Human International Conference (p. 21). ACM.
1.2.1 Updated Filing System
The following table contains the updated filing system.
Source Keywords No. of returned literature No. collected literature
Google Scholar Persuasive
Persuasive health for
human
32,000
27,000
2
2
VU Library Persuasive technology to
improve well-being
4,500 3
IEEE Persuasive Health 50,674 3

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Technology for Human
Well-Being
Google Scholar Health technology issues 6,532 2
1.3 Selected Paper 1
Fritz, T., Huang, E.M., Murphy, G.C. and Zimmermann, T., 2014, April. Persuasive
technology in the real world: a study of long-term use of activity sensing devices for fitness. In
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 487-496).
ACM.
1.3.1 The Behavioral change to support the persuasiveness approach
Persuasive technology has been designed in keeping the mind of the human behavior.
The behavior of the human changes from one person to another so the persuasive technology
equipment has been designed to change the opinion of the person through the persuasion and the
surrounding influence not forcibly (Azar et al 2013). The following research is focused on the
persuasive technology in the health sector for the human well beings. To find the solution for the
problems in the health sector various experiments has been conducted. In the section 1.3.1 the
background of the persuasive technology especially in the health sector has been described to
have a brief knowledge of the topic.
1.3.2 Background
The usage of the persuasive technology has been increasing especially in the health field
to improve the health and fitness of the human beings (Berkowitz 2016). Various products such
as the health fitness band and the sensors has been developed by the company to track and