Michelle Garrison, PhD from the Child Health Institute, reported on the challenges of creating a system that helps patient effect behavior change. The institute is running a number of such projects. The current ones target asthmas information for parents and media choices for parents. Garrison presented two influential theories on the design of these persuasive systems, walked us through the system, and discussed some of the challenges.
The two theories that influenced the design of this system are “stages of change” and “social cognitive theory”. (more…)
