Factors Affecting User’s Behavioral Intention and Use of a Mobile-Phone-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: A Small-Scale UTAUT Analysis

A mobile app could be a powerful medium for providing individual support for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as facilitating therapy adherence. Little is known about factors that may explain the acceptance and uptake of such applications. This study, therefore, examines factors from an extended version of the Unified Theory of...

Tailoring personalized breathing rhythms of a Sleep Robot: An interactive data loop design

The thesis aims to investigate how the Sleep Robot system (a Sleep Robot, its application, and servers) can adopt a data-enabled loop to make optimal use. The research has three main objectives: (1)understanding the needs and concerns of using the Sleep Robot system in different user profiles, (2)building a data loop of the Sleep Robot system...

Virtual Sleep Coach

During this project we were asked to explore the possibilities and limitations of creating a virtual therapist that can help people who suffer from a sleeping disorder. In order to answer this question, the goal of the project was to make such a therapist ourselves. <br/><br/>The first two weeks of the project were spent doing research. We...

Talk and Tools: The best of both worlds in mobile user interfaces for E-coaching

In this paper, a user interface paradigm, called Talk-and-Tools, is presented for automated e-coaching. The paradigm is based on the idea that people interact in two ways with their environment: symbolically and physically. The main goal is to show how the paradigm can be applied in the design of interactive systems that offer an acceptable...

Mobile Phone-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: A Randomized Waitlist Controlled Trial

Background: This study is one of the first randomized controlled trials investigating cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered by a fully automated mobile phone app. Such an app can potentially increase the accessibility of insomnia treatment for the 10% of people who have insomnia. Objective: The objective of our study was to...

Reminders make people adhere better to a self-help sleep intervention

The experiment presented in this paper investigated the effects of different kinds of reminders on adherence to automated parts of a cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered via a mobile device. Previous studies report that computerized health interventions can be effective. However, treatment adherence is still an issue....