Android Based Behavioral Change Intervention Using Social Sensing

Abstract

Smart phones can be used to capture a variety of behavioral and social aspects of the user. The availability of more and more powerful mobile and sensing technologies enables the design of systems to positively influence the life of individuals in ways that were unimaginable only ten years ago. By means of sensing devices embedded in smart phones, key characteristics of human interactions and individual emotional states can be inferred with an increasing level of accuracy. In this project, we have developed an android application which uses social sensing based behavior change interventions to monitor social activities of a user to maintain healthy balance of social activities in his/her life. This application takes user data related to his social activities and takes decision on the basis of collected data of a certain duration to infer a result that is then displayed to user with suggestions to improve his daily routine. User is encouraged to be more social by using principles of human computer interaction (HCI) where feedback is provided in a virtual environment and each social activity will help him gain improvements in virtual world and not socializing will result in loosing those improvements.