The research community on the study and design of systems for personal informatics has
grown over the past decade. To take stock of what the topics the field has studied and …

The evolving field of persuasive and behavior change technology is increasingly targeted at
influencing behavior in the area of health and wellness. This paper provides an empirical …

Advances in deep learning (DL) model design have pushed the boundaries of the areas in
which it can be applied. The fields with an immense availability of complex big data have …

Background The just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) is an intervention design aiming to
provide the right type/amount of support, at the right time, by adapting to an individual's …

Serious games are growing rapidly as a gaming industry as well as a field of academic
research. There are many surveys in the field of digital serious games; however, most …

The delivery of healthcare services has experienced tremendous changes during the last
years. Mobile health or mHealth is a key engine of advance in the forefront of this revolution …

Current models of how people use personal informatics systems are largely based in
behavior change goals. They do not adequately characterize the integration of self-tracking …

Researchers have studied how people use self-tracking technologies and discovered a long
list of barriers including lack of time and motivation as well as difficulty in data integration …

Smart devices are becoming increasingly commercially available. However, uptake of these
devices has been slow and abandonment swift, which indicates that smart devices may not …

Signal segmentation is a crucial stage in the activity recognition process; however, this has
been rarely and vaguely characterized so far. Windowing approaches are normally used for …