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ReviewExercise and sport sciences reviews2020

Engineering Person-Specific Behavioral Interventions to Promote Physical Activity.

David E Conroy, Constantino M Lagoa, Eric Hekler, Daniel E Rivera

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Review in Exercise and sport sciences reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Exploring novel determinants of exercise behavior: a lagged exposure-wide approach.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025
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  13. Person-specific dose-finding for a digital messaging intervention to promote physical activity.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021
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  14. Seasons, weather, and device-measured movement behaviors: a scoping review from 2006 to 2020.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David E Conroy
Constantino M LagoaThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
Eric HeklerUniversity of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Daniel E RiveraArizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Funding

Optimizing Individualized and Adaptive mHealth Interventions via Control Systems Engineering MethodsR01CA244777 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HEKLER, ERIC, RIVERA, DANIEL E · 2020 to 2024
$3.8M
Phase 1 clinical trial to develop a personalized adaptive text message intervention using control systems engineering tools to increase physical activity in early adulthoodR01HL142732 · NHLBI · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI CONROY, DAVID E., LAGOA, CONSTANTINO MANUEL · 2018 to 2021
$2.4M
SCH: Control Systems Engineering for Counteracting Notification Fatigue: An Examination of Health Behavior Change R01LM013107 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HEKLER, ERIC, KLASNJA, PREDRAG · 2019 to 2022
$995k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA244777NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL142732NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical activity is dynamic, complex, and often regulated idiosyncratically. In this article, we review how techniques used in control systems engineering are being applied to refine physical activity theory and interventions. We hypothesize that person-specific adaptive behavioral interventions grounded in system identification and model predictive control will lead to greater physical activity than more generic, conventional intervention approaches.

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Computing MethodologiesHealth BehaviorBehavior TherapyDecision Support TechniquesExerciseHealth PromotionHumans

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PMID32658043
PMCPMC7492414

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