A systematic process for persuasive mobile healthcare applications

In recent years there has been an increased focus on persuasive design of mobile in the healthcare domain. However, most of the studies did not follow systematic processes while analysis and designing the persuasive technology applications, and they also failed to provide some of the relevant information needed to design the persuasive applications. Adding to this is a need for more guidance in order to set how the persuasive guidelines can be implemented, which also means that there is a need for a way to transform the persuasive components into software requirements and functionalities. Therefore, this paper proposes a general systematic process to be used independently of the problem domain in order to analyze the customers’ significant requirements. Such domain is the obesity problem among Malaysian children, and the most significant treatment of this case is parents’ involvement. To this end, this paper will apply a systematic process in monitoring the children’s obesity status among parents.In recent years there has been an increased focus on persuasive design of mobile in the healthcare domain. However, most of the studies did not follow systematic processes while analysis and designing the persuasive technology applications, and they also failed to provide some of the relevant information needed to design the persuasive applications. Adding to this is a need for more guidance in order to set how the persuasive guidelines can be implemented, which also means that there is a need for a way to transform the persuasive components into software requirements and functionalities. Therefore, this paper proposes a general systematic process to be used independently of the problem domain in order to analyze the customers’ significant requirements. Such domain is the obesity problem among Malaysian children, and the most significant treatment of this case is parents’ involvement. To this end, this paper will apply a systematic process in monitoring the children’s obesity status among parents.

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