Persuasive Design for Healthy Eating: A Scoping Review

  • Xinyue Liu
  • , Xipei Ren (Corresponding author-nrf)
  • , 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
    Subtitle of host publication10th International Conference, DAPI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
    EditorsNorbert A. Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages292-303
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-05431-0
    ISBN (Print)978-3-031-05430-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 16 Jun 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 (LNCS)
    Volume13326
    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

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

    Funding

    Acknowledgements. This work was supported by Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars.

    Keywords

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

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