There is a growing number of eHealth interventions aiming at enhancing lifestyle to address obesity. However, the existing interventions do not take the emotional aspects of obesity into account. Forty percent of the overweight population is an emotional eater. Emotional eaters gain weight because of …

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are embraced by designers, scholars and charities alike, some primarily for their entertaining properties, others also for the opportunities in education, motivation or persuasion. Applications with the latter objective, that of persuasion, are designed …

Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised minorities, such as migrants, prompting them to 'see what they see'. In parallel, a growing number of designers has recently …

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Eetsnelheid is een zeer hardnekkige gewoonte die moeilijk te veranderen blijkt. Toch is het belangrijk dat snelle eters leren om langzamer te eten. Mensen die langzaam eten zijn namelijk sneller verzadigd en eten doorgaans minder dan mensen die snel eten. In dit onderzoek wordt getest of het gebruik …

The combination of self-tracking and persuasive eCoaching in healthy lifestyle interventions is a promising approach. The objective of this study is to map the key components of existing healthy lifestyle interventions combining self-tracking and persuasive eCoaching using the scoping review methodology …

Een digitaal product ontwerpen dat debiteurenbeheer overneemt van ZZP-ers en MKB-ers. Een product neerzetten dat organisaties kan helpen bij debiteurenbeheer, door gebruik te maken van een “persuasive design” dat debiteuren moet overtuigen hun betalingen binnen een redelijke termijn te voldoen.

Voor aanvang van de stage heeft boonduq al een concreet idee voor een vernieuwing van de bedrijfswebsite, namelijk het aanbieden van hun kennis over online marketing in ruil voor geld. Nadat ik in de eerste weken van de stage diverse gesprekken heb gevoerd met mijn bedrijfsmentor, heb ik de definitieve …

Overweight is associated with a range of negative health consequences, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and premature mortality. One means to combat overweight is through encouraging people to eat more slowly. People who eat quickly tend to consume more and …

Reductions in eating rate have been recommended as potential behavioral strategies to prevent and treat overweight. Unfortunately, eating rate is difficult to modify, due to its highly automatic nature. Training people to eat more slowly in everyday eating contexts, therefore, requires creative and engaging …