Bickmore Timothy W, Mauer Daniel, Brown Thomas
Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science, 360 Huntington Ave WVH202, Boston, MA 02115, (
Pervasive Mob Comput. 2009 Jun 1;5(3):226-235. doi: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2008.05.004.
Work towards the development of a handheld health counseling agent designed to promote physical activity is described. Previous work on automated health counselors is discussed, along with the affordances of mobility and context awareness for health behavior interventions. We present a general-purpose software architecture for the rapid design and deployment of mobile health counseling agents. We also describe the results of an initial field trial in which such a mobile agent plays the role of an exercise coach designed to motivate users to walk more. Results were mixed. We found that the context awareness mechanism that was implemented for detecting walking led to greater user-agent social bonding, but less walking in study participants.
本文描述了致力于开发一款旨在促进身体活动的手持式健康咨询代理的工作。讨论了以往关于自动化健康咨询的工作,以及移动性和情境感知对健康行为干预的作用。我们提出了一种用于快速设计和部署移动健康咨询代理的通用软件架构。我们还描述了一项初步现场试验的结果,在该试验中,这样一个移动代理扮演运动教练的角色,旨在激励用户多走路。结果喜忧参半。我们发现,为检测步行而实施的情境感知机制导致用户与代理之间的社交联系增强,但研究参与者的步行量减少。