Background: Although computer-tailored promotion of dietary change and physical activity
has been identified as a promising intervention strategy, there is a need for a more …

Computer-tailored nutrition education is an innovative and promising tool to motivate people
to make healthy dietary changes. It provides respondents with individualized feedback about …

This paper discusses how persuasive technologies can be made adaptive to users. We
present persuasion profiling as a method to personalize the persuasive messages used by a …

Behaviour change techniques describe the content of behaviour change interventions, but
do not adequately account for the actions that people must themselves undertake to …

Roughly half of all causes of mortality in the United States are tied to social and behavioral
variables including smoking, alcohol use, diet and sedentary lifestyle (Institute of Medicine …

Millions of children undergo outpatient surgery in the United States each year; the
overwhelming majority will experience significant perioperative anxiety and pain. Behavioral …

Positive psychology is paving the way for interventions that enduringly enhance well-being
and the internet offers the potential to disseminate these interventions to a broad audience …

Fuzzy classification techniques have been developed recently to estimate the class
composition of image pixels, but their output provides no indication of how these classes are …

There is ample evidence that printed, computer-tailored nutrition education is a more
effective tool for motivating people to change to healthier diets than general nutrition …

Patient‐centered care is valued in nursing. However, until recently, nurse‐researchers have
focused on testing the effects of standardized rather than patient‐centered interventions …