Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers

Lafortuna, Claudio L.; Caon, Maurizio; Tabozzi, Sarah A.; Carrino, Stefano; Coulson, Neil S.; Serrano, Jos� C.E.; Sacco, Marco; Khaled, Omar Abou; Rizzo, Giovanna; Mugellini, Elena

Abstract

Obesity is a major clinical problem for individuals and health care systems worldwide, alarmingly fuelled by body mass excess in the juvenile age. In spite of its multi-factorial origin, unhealthy lifestyles relative to alimentary behaviours and physical activity habits play a major causative role. Thus, an important preventive action of this condition can be conducted by fostering motivation of young people towards healthy lifestyles through engagement and inclusion. ICT technologies offer a powerful tool to address effectively this serious medical and societal issue by the development of persuasive strategies based on an accurate modelling of individual's characteristics. PEGASO is a technological multidisciplinary project aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among teenagers, through assistive technology enhancing motivation to healthy lifestyles, empowered by a virtual individual model (VIM) for user characterisation. The VIM intended for the PEGASO project, including functional, physical and psychosocial aspects profiling young individuals' health status and behaviours relevant in alimentary and physical activity domain, will enable the development of an individualised assistive technology expected to leverage motivation to healthy lifestyles through implicit and explicit interaction. Copyright © 2014 SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications. All rights reserved.

Citation

Lafortuna, C. L., Caon, M., Tabozzi, S. A., Carrino, S., Coulson, N. S., Serrano, J. C., Sacco, M., Khaled, O. A., Rizzo, G., & Mugellini, E. (2014, March). Towards individualised persuasive technology for obesity prevention in teenagers. Presented at HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, Loire Valley, France

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014
• Start Date: Mar 3, 2014
• End Date: Mar 6, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Mar 6, 2014
• Publication Date: Mar 6, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jan 8, 2021
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 591-598
• Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics: SUPERHEAL, (BIOSTEC 2014)
• ISBN: 9789897580109
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0004938805910598
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4773640
• Publisher URL: https://www.scitepress.org/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0004938805910598
• Related Public URLs: http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/?y=2014