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Heart disease is stated as the world’s biggest killers. The risk factors of this deadly disease are due to some bad habits such as being overweight, bad eating diet, smoking, assumption of alcohol, etc. Nevertheless, patients can live a healthy lifestyle if they have the proper guidance of persuasive-emotional featured technologies. In line with this, this study focuses on developing an emotional-persuasive habit-change support mobile application called BeHabit to improve heart disease patients’ lifestyles. Persuasive-emotional features are two different features that are integrated with BeHabit to distinguish this application from the existing ones. The proposed system is designed, implemented, tested, and evaluated by 10 users. In conclusion, the users are satisfied to used BeHabit to change their bad habits. Emotional and persuasive features which are integrated into BeHabit are the key to help patients to change their bad habits. BeHabit and the integrated feature can be used as a guideline for healthcare developers and providers for the improvement of mHealth services.
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The authors are thankful to School of Computer Sciences, and Division of Research & Innovation, USM for providing financial support from Short Term Grant (304/PKOMP/6315435) granted to Dr Pantea Keikhosrokiani.
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Ravichandran, B.D., Keikhosrokiani, P. (2021). An Emotional-Persuasive Habit-Change Support Mobile Application for Heart Disease Patients (BeHabit). In: Saeed, F., Mohammed, F., Al-Nahari, A. (eds) Innovative Systems for Intelligent Health Informatics. IRICT 2020. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70713-2_25
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