Design of a web intervention to change youth smoking habits

K.N., Goh and Y.Y., Chen and E.E., Mustapha and S., Sivapalan and Md Nordin, Shahrina (2009) Design of a web intervention to change youth smoking habits. In: 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2009, 19 July 2009 through 24 July 2009, San Diego, CA.

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Abstract

Web interventions are gaining popularity in trying to change a person's behavior. However, poorly designed intervention websites will affect the learning process of a person, what more to remember the content that they have learnt. The objective of this paper is to discuss the design of a web intervention using Gagne's Condition of Learning Theory and cognitive dissonance. The usage of learning theory enables the designers to develop the intervention website based on users' learning capabilities, thus placing users as priority. This ensures that users are able to maximize learning and recall of its content when faced with the decision to smoke or not. We are planning to recruit target users who are smokers, ranging from the 18 to 22 age range. Smokers will be categorized according to a baseline survey. Each category of users will go through the web intervention of different content. It is hoped that by combining the abovementioned theories, smokers are able to reduce their intake. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cognitive Dissonance; Gagne's Condition of Learning Theory; HCI; Smoking; Web Intervention; Education; Electric currents; Knowledge management; User interfaces; World Wide Web; Human computer interaction
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Depositing User: Kim Nee Goh
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2010 14:29
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2017 08:25
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/150

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