ECOPPA: Extensible Context Ontology for Persuasive Physical-Activity Applications

Throughout the last decade, there has been a dramatic decline in daily physical activity among individuals which results in numerous severe health issues, including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and high blood pressure. Pervasive applications that promote health living present a promising approach for the reduction or prevention of these health ailements. Context-awareness plays an important role in the development of these technologies. Context-aware systems can adapt to the changing context in order to better serve their users. In this paper, we propose the Extensible Context Ontology for Persuasive Physical-Activity Applications (ECOPPA), a formal context modeling scheme for applications that promote physical activity.

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