Theory vs. design-driven approaches for behavior change research
Rosa I. Arriaga, Andrew Miller, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Claudia Pagliari, Erika Shehan Poole · 2013
Designing and evaluating interactive systems for encouraging health behavior change at time leaves human-computer interaction researcher in a quandary: the methods and user-centered design philosophies favored in HCI can be incompatible with theory-driven approaches favored in healthcare research. The goal of this panel is to open a discussion about these tensions and to explore methods to reconcile them.