Rita Orji

TL;DR: This paper provides an empirical review of 16 years (85 papers) of literature on persuasive technology for health and wellness to answer important questions regarding the effectiveness and uncover pitfalls of existing persuasive technological interventions forhealth and wellness.

TL;DR: This paper extended the Health Belief Model by introducing four new variables: Self-identity, Perceived Importance, Consideration of Future Consequences, and Concern for Appearance as possible determinants of healthy behavior, showing the suitability of the extended HBM for use in predicting healthy behavior and in informing health intervention design.

TL;DR: A large-scale study on 1,108 gamers is conducted to examine the persuasiveness of ten PT strategies that are commonly employed in persuasive game design, and the receptiveness of seven gamer personalities to theTen PT strategies are examined.

TL;DR: A large-scale survey of 642 gamers' eating habits and their associated determinants of healthy behavior to understand how health behavior relates to gamer type and developed seven different models of healthy eating behavior for the gamer types identified by BrainHex.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used automated extraction of COVID-19-related discussions from social media and a natural language process (NLP) method based on topic modeling to uncover various issues related to the disease from public opinions.