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Motivating Healthy Water Intake through Prompting, Historical Information, and Implicit Feedback

Human-Computer Interaction 2016-03-07 v1

Abstract

We describe Hydroprompt, a prototype for sensing and motivating healthy water intake in work environments. In a 3-week field deployment of Hydroprompt, we evaluate the effectiveness of three approaches to behavior change: historical information enabling users to compare their water intake lev- els across different times of day and days of week, implicit feedback providing subtle cues to users on the current hydration levels, and explicit prompting at- tempting to remind participants when hydration falls below acceptable levels or when substantial amount of time has elapsed since the last sip.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01367,
  title  = {Motivating Healthy Water Intake through Prompting, Historical Information, and Implicit Feedback},
  author = {Davide Neves and Donovan Costa and Marcio Oliveira and Ruben Jardim and Ruben Gouveia and Evangelos Karapanos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01367},
  year   = {2016}
}

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In Adjunct Proceedings of Persuasive Technology 2016, Salzburg, Austria