Happy – Health Awareness and Prevention Personalized for You
Happy is a cancer prevention mobile app that uses personal information data and instant contextual data to tailor the contents provided to the user in the form of daily suggestions (notifications/short messages). This app acts in real-life settings in terms of behaviour change and cancer prevention knowledge as it aims to persuade users to change their behaviour, making healthier choices, thus reducing their personal risk of developing several types of cancer. The main focus is based in the persuasive power of triggers, and several strategies based on different behaviour change techniques such as barrier identification, prompting, social support, social comparison, and behaviour modelling.
September 2014 – May 2018
Research Grant: FCT grant number SFRH/BD/92996/2013;
Project Grant: Project HYPE (Private funding: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation)
KMCC
Nuno Ribeiro (Team UA – PhD Researcher);
Ana Margarida Almeida (Team UA – PhD Supervisor)
Filipe Santos-Silva (Team i3S – PhD Supervisor )
Ipatimup – Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto
i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, UP
More info available at: http://happy-app.eu