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Overweight and obesity have become a severe medical and financial societal challenge. Besides an unbalanced caloric intake and expenditure, individual behaviors and lifestyle choices shaped by the social environment, are driving, if not significantly impacting on the global obesity epidemic. This research in progress paper is focused on social comparison theory and presents the design of the mobile...
With lifestyle-related conditions such as obesity amongst adolescents on the rise across the developed world, a pressing need exists for interventions which tackle the many factors underlying early-stage lifestyle formation. As a medium, digital games have the potential to integrate well with existing lifestyle patterns in adolescents, whilst engaging them and facilitating such lifestyle changes....
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