Persuasive features in six weight loss websites: A qualitative evaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6137 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 162-173

  Lehto, Tuomas ^a   Oinas Kukkonen, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

intervention; persuasive; PSD model; web based; weight loss

Indexed keywords

PERSUASIVE; PRIMARY TASK; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTEM FEATURES; SYSTEMS DESIGN; WEIGHT LOSS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; TECHNOLOGY; WEIGHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77954647479     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13226-1_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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