Persuasive Design for Healthy Eating: A Scoping Review

Xinyue Liu, Xipei Ren*, Sibo Pan

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Abstract

In this scoping review, we aimed to summarize and analyze the latest research developments of persuasive design for healthy eating behavior and explore future design opportunities. This paper initially collected 1231 papers from 2011 to 2021 in three different databases: the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library, IEEE Xplore and SpringerLink databases. Based on a selection process, 28 papers that mainly focused on addressing dietary health by persuasive designs were eventually included in final analysis. These 28 papers were sorted by three characteristics: research specifications, methodologies, and design rationales. Our data analyses revealed that the reviewed papers primarily utilized persuasive technologies for eating behaviors monitoring, recording, and healthy eating suggestion. Moreover, six types of design applications were commonly implemented, including mobile applications, persuasive messages, digital products and service systems, wearable devices, chatbots/assistants, and public devices. Our review showed that persuasive design, as a generic approach for promoting healthy eating, lacked research investigations on personalized solutions for particular user groups such as office workers and teenagers. Future works could explore persuasive design strategies by applying the research factors of user experience and examining the efficacy of persuasive technology tools to effectively promote healthy eating behaviors for various user groups in different contexts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDistributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Living, Learning, Well-being and Health, Art and Creativity - 10th International Conference, DAPI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
EditorsNorbert A. Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages292-303
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031054303
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 26 Jun 20221 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13326 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period26/06/221/07/22

Keywords

  • Health-promoting technology
  • Healthy eating
  • Persuasive design
  • Review

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