Putting the long-term into behavior change

Harmen de Weerd, Nick Degens

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Abstract

Behavior change is a topic that is of great interest to many people. People can use apps to exercise more, eat healthier, or learn a new skill, but and digital interventions and games are also used by policy makers and companies to create a safe environment for the general public or to increase sales. Given this interest in behavior change, it is not surprising that this topic has seen a lot of interest from the scientific community. This has resulted in a wide range of theories and techniques to bring about behavior change. However, maintaining behavior change is rarely addressed, and as a result poorly understood. In this paper, we take a first step in the design of digital interventions for long-term behavior change by placing a range of behavior change techniques on a long-term behavior change timeline.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGames and learning alliance
Subtitle of host publication7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Palermo, Italy, December 5–7, 2018, Proceedings
Pages71-81
Number of pages11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventGames and Learning Alliance Conference -
Duration: 5 Dec 20187 Dec 2018

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume11385
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

ConferenceGames and Learning Alliance Conference
Period5/12/187/12/18

Keywords

  • behavior change
  • long-term effects
  • behavior change techniques

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