• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.18-29
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• 2019

In the field of Human-Computer Interaction design, persuasive design has gradually been applied to the system development and design process, especially for mobile application design. However, most mobile applications have hitherto a very short using lifecycle. Especially, design features with long-term persuasive effectiveness remain to be further researched and developed. In this study, we focused on investigating and identifying the durative persuasive design characteristics through a data mining process and evaluating the durative effectiveness through a long-term observation process. Total five hundred healthcare-related mobile applications were selected from Apple iTunes Store and a mixed method was conducted to extract the most common persuasive design characteristics. Based on the results of extraction, a representative healthcare-related mobile application was selected as experimental subject. Total one hundred and twenty participants were observed during a six-months experiment and the monitoring data of app usage of all participants was collected once a week. According to the evaluation model for behavior change identification process, participants with habit formation features were proved to have a significant long-term perception level for ten persuasive design characteristics. Further interview research was performed to investigate the participant's long-term perceptions on those characteristics for the purpose of identifying the durative persuasions. The results indicated that a long-term durative effectiveness can be observed and healthcare-related apps designed with those characteristics could have durative effectiveness. This study may contribute to the improvement of future mobile application designs in user experience and durative persuasion, as well as bringing future benefits for both mobile application developers and users.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.201-224
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• 2020

Purpose The study focuses on the physical activity behavior change effect of smart wristband, which is the most popular type of fitness tracker nowadays. The purpose of the research is to investigate how people's workout behavior may change after wearing a smart band and examine what kind of role persuasive design plays in behavior change. Design/Methodology/Approach This research employed an experimental study to examine whether the user's workout behaviors changed after using wristband from the "Behavior Wizard" perspective. A representative smart wristband from a major vendor was selected as the objects of experimental study. In the experiment, by comparing users' workout behavior before and after using the wristband, behavior changes of all the experiment participants were classified into one of the 15 behavior change types. Users perceived persuasive design characteristics were measured and group differences were tested among different behavior change groups. Findings This research found that nearly half of the participants changed their workout behavior while half retained their workout status or no exercise status. Half of the participants who did not do exercise in their spare time started walking in the experiment. Results also showed that participants who started working out perceived higher levels of persuasive design devised into the smart band than participants who preserved no exercise status, except for facilitation and reward strategies. Participants who retained workout and those who increased workout frequency perceived no difference in smart band persuasive design.

• 디자인융복합연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.233-246
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• 2016

모바일 헬스 산업은 IT 기술과 융합하여 주목받고 있으며, 헬스 애플리케이션은 사용자의 건강한 라이프 스타일을 제공하는 방향으로 발전하고 있다. 본 연구는 4개의 모바일 헬스 애플리케이션을 선정하여 서비스의 동향을 살펴 보았고 그 결과 모두 신체 데이터 이외의 감정에 관한 데이터를 포함하고 있지 않고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 추가적으로 사용자의 감정을 추출을 위한 기술을 분류 및 분석하였고, 이를 통해 텍스트 기반 감정인식 기술이 모바일 헬스 서비스와 가장 적합하다고 판단하였다. 감정인식 서비스를 구현하고자 소셜 네트워크 서비스와 1차원 감정 모델을 시스템의 소스로 설정한 감정인식 시스템의 프로세스 설계를 하여 개발하였다. 뿐만 아니라, 본 시스템이 모바일 헬스 애플리케이션에서 어떻게 사용 가능할지 제안하고자 설득형 기술과 결합하였다. 결과적으로 사용자의 5가지 감정과 감정이 지속되는 시간에 따른 15가지의 제안을 포함하는 가이드라인과 구체적 서비스 방안 제안하였다. 이에 본 연구는 기존의 헬스 애플리케이션이 정신적 건강, 감정적 건강과 같은 개인의 심리적 컨텍스트까지 고려하는 제안형 서비스로 나아가기 위한 지침이 될 것으로 기대하는 바이다.