Background Compared to traditional persuasive technology and health games, gamification
is posited to offer several advantages for motivating behaviour change for health and well …

Objectives The National Institutes of Health, led by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute, organized a working group of experts to discuss the problem of weight regain after …

The present study endeavors to develop a deeper understanding of the motivational
processes involved in intentional entrepreneurial behavior. For this purpose, it integrates the …

Creating a negative energy balance by decreasing caloric consumption and increasing
physical activity is a common strategy used to treat obesity. A large number of review and …

A growing number of studies have pulled from Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory to
design interventions targeting health behavior change. More recently, researchers have …

Healthful behaviours such as maintaining a balanced diet, being physically active and
refraining from smoking have major impacts on the risk of developing cancer, diabetes …

Fitness technology feature use items were not available in the literature, and thus, were
developed for the current study. Items were developed for each feature set following the …

Self-determination theory has been applied to the prediction of a number of health-related
behaviors with self-determined or autonomous forms of motivation generally more effective …

Over the last decade, mobile technology has emerged as a potentially useful platform to
facilitate weight management and tackle the current obesity epidemic. Clinicians are being …

Leonardo da Vinci once said that,“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who
boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast”. Similarly …