CCE Faculty Articles

A Review of Web-Based Dietary Interventions: From the Human-Computer Interaction Practitioners' Perspective

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries

ISSN

1090-8471

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

Despite the popularity of web‐based dietary interventions, there are few evidence‐based, practical guidelines that help human–computer interaction (HCI) practitioners design new dietary intervention systems. We suspect that a lack of such guidelines is partly due to a chasm between two major research domains, healthcare and HCI. We believe that technologies developed in HCI are not used and evaluated by healthcare researchers, so we fail to accumulate experiences to develop guidelines. To assess the gap, we carefully selected 86 papers that employed and evaluated various web‐based dietary interventions in both fields and analyzed general characteristics, behavior change strategies, intervention media, and research outcomes used in each paper. Through this review, we reaffirmed our belief about the discrepancies between healthcare and HCI, and additional findings helped us offer some suggestions to close the gap. We also identified several interesting patterns among behavior change strategies, intervention media, and outcomes that provide potential topics for future research.

DOI

10.1002/hfm.20371

Volume

24

Issue

3

First Page

241

Last Page

261

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