Smartphones for Large-Scale Behavior Change Interventions
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Lathia, Neal; Pejovic, Veljko; Rachuri, Kiran K.; Mascolo, Cecilia; Musolesi, Mirco; Rentfrow, Peter J.
- Source
- IEEE Pervasive Computing IEEE Pervasive Comput. Pervasive Computing, IEEE. 12(3):66-73 Sep, 2013
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Smart phones
Sensors
Monitoring
Behavioral science
Ubiquitous computing
Global Positioning System
Hidden Markov models
smartphone sensing
distributed systems
user/machine systems
behavior change interventions
social and behavioral sciences
social psychology
pervasive computing
- Language
- ISSN
- 1536-1268
1558-2590
Equipped with cutting-edge sensing technology and high-end processors, smartphones can unobtrusively sense human behavior and deliver feedback and behavioral therapy. The authors discuss two applications for behavioral monitoring and change and present UBhave, the first holistic platform for large-scale digital behavior change intervention.