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MyBehavior: Persuasion by Adapting to User Behavior and User Preference

NCT02359981 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2015-02-11

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Summary

MyBehavior is a mobile application with a suggestion engine that learns a user's physical activity and dietary behavior, and provides finely-tuned personalized suggestions. To our knowledge, MyBehavior is the first smartphone app to provide personalized health suggestions automatically, going beyond commonly used one-size-fits-all prescriptive approaches, or tailored interventions from health-care professionals. MyBehavior uses an online multi-armed bandit model to automatically generate context-sensitive and personalized activity/food suggestions by learning the user's actual behavior. The app continually adapts its suggestions by exploiting the most frequent healthy behaviors, while sometimes exploring non-frequent behaviors, in order to maximize the user's chance of reaching a health goal (e.g. weight loss).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MyBehavior

The intervention automatically provides personalized suggestions based on users behavior and user context. Suggestions relates to users life and how often they have done them in the past. Since the suggestions relate to users' lives, they are easy to follow.

BEHAVIORAL

Generic suggestions

A nutritionist and an exercise trainer jointly created 45 food and exercise suggestions based on guidelines posted by the NIH. These suggestions ask users to walk for 30 minutes or eat healthier foods. These suggestions however doesn't personalize to users daily behavior into account.

DEVICE

Smartphone

An Android Smartphone with operating system version higher than 2.2

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Mashfiqui Rabbi, BS · Cornell University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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