Professor Lee Eui-jin, who received the Best Paper Award (left) [Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Redistribution and DB prohibited].
(Daejeon = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Joo-young = The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on the 25th that Professor Lee Eui-jin’s research team from the Department of Computer Science received the Best Paper Award at the Ubiquitous Computing Conference hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Melbourne, Australia on the 8th.
The ACM Ubiquitous Computing Conference is a prestigious international conference that presents the latest research findings in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) concerning ubiquitous computing and wearable devices. It invites researchers whose papers have been published in the ACM journal.
Out of 205 papers published in the ACM journal, eight, including Professor Lee’s paper, were selected as outstanding papers after a review by the editorial board.
Professor Lee’s research team proposed a study that optimizes interventions using data collected from health management apps to encourage active use of the app.
They developed a physical activity enhancement app and analyzed how users’ self-control abilities and tendencies to feel boredom affect adherence to timely interventions.
Experiment results over eight weeks showed that user groups with high self-control and low tendencies to feel boredom exhibited high adherence to timely interventions delivered via the health management app.
Professor Lee Eui-jin stated, “Users with a high tendency to feel bored easily get tired of repeating timely interventions, resulting in a rapid decrease in app adherence,” and added, “This research on utilizing timely mobile health interventions is the first of its kind and will contribute to increasing engagement in digital therapeutics.”
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