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Counterobe: A Mobile and Web Platform for Weight Management Incorporating Unique Behavioral-Strategy Features

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  • Yiannis Koumpouros

    (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece)

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The paper presents the design of an adaptive web/mobile platform, called Counterobe, targeting the problem of obesity and weight management. The platform incorporates several behavioral, emotional and cognitive strategy features in order to motivate and mobilize the end users more effectively, while trying to overcome the problem of engagement in the long run. The interventions implemented promote: self-monitoring, problem solving, socializing, information retrieval, social support, self-efficacy. The platform follows a responsive approach that allows the provision of valid and accurate information based on the individualities of each end user. To support the maintaining of exercise and healthy life style and behavior regime over longer periods of time Counterobe application: (i) builds a network between specialists/experts (doctors, dieticians, psychologists), patients and their friend/net-friends, (ii) utilizes an Avatar which changes appropriately as user progresses, (iii) use a multi-disciplinary approach to support the end users in a tailor-made way.

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  • Yiannis Koumpouros, 2017. "Counterobe: A Mobile and Web Platform for Weight Management Incorporating Unique Behavioral-Strategy Features," International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH), IGI Global, vol. 6(4), pages 59-70, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jrqeh0:v:6:y:2017:i:4:p:59-70
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    1. Sadaf Batool Naqvi & Abad A. Shah, 2018. "Modeling Historically mHealth Care Environments," International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH), IGI Global, vol. 7(3), pages 57-75, July.

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