I am currently proposing to develop a smartphone application to be used as intervention tool in promoting physical activity among adults through a method based on location sensing physical activity monitoring.
I have reviewed quite a number of literature related to the topic but it seems there is no consistent / common framework or guidelines used in reporting the development process of smartphone app. Besides using the taxonomy of behavioral change techniques (BCTs) in terminology and health behavioral model, great variation in terms of workflow, aspects and depths in developing process were shown. What are the aspects, and related details in sequential manner need to be included in a comprehensive report.
If any of you experience in this area, I would like to seek your advice and/or some references which I can use to prepare the write out. Your help is very much appreciated.
Hi Raymond,
There are many different behavioral change theories to guide you here. I am attaching a couple of papers I wrote several years ago that discuss the approaches in relation to self management of chronic illnesses.
I hope this helps
Ariel
Article Disease Management Interventions: What's in the Black Box?
Article Disease Management Interventions II: What Else Is in the Black Box?
The use of smart phone applications in the legalization of training loads and monitoring the development of the heart beat and body temperature and other functions
Dear Ariel and Hamdy,
Thanks for the input given. However, I'm actually looking for a framework or guideline how to report the development process of smartphone application. What are the aspects, and details in sequential manner need to be included in a comprehensive report.
There is a sparsity of guidelines regarding how to report the development of smartphone apps (or any technology related intervention for that matter). What framework did you use when you developed the app/your intervention? Behavioral Change Wheel, Intervention Mapping or equivalent? Maybe you can use the steps of those frameworks as headers for why you chose certain elements?
Also you might be interested in looking at the field of Captology & Persuasive System Design?
All of the above have proven to be very helpful for our project.
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