Top 5 Tools for Creating Health Habits

Top 5tools for creatinghealth habits
Cristina Cordova
April 2010
habits.stanford.edu

Mobile & social Tech tools
Here are the TOP 5 tools that providesocial triggers for women ages 18-30 to perform health habits relating to beauty and fitness using mobile technology.

MOBILE PHONE
Whenwomenhavemobile phones on them, it serves as a constant form of communication helping to create habits.
When others can communicate with you on the go, it provides a social trigger
Thecell phone goes everywhere allowing
habits to be formed everywhere

Google calendar
Create (social) events to help you form your habit
Share your events with others to enable social pressure to perform habits
Get reminders on a mobile device to trigger performance of behavior

NIKE+ IPOD
Track miles and time spent exercising with
Nike shoes + iPod + shoe sensor
iPhone apps that help track behavior allow one to measure their own performance and share it with others
Track success to not only form, but improve health behavior anywhere a woman goes

Google Tasks
Form a task list with Gmail to remind yourself to perform behavior
Take the task list with you to remind yourself to perform behavior on the go
Add tasks to your calendar to combine it with a behavior you already perform (checking your calendar)

Blogger
Blog about the habit you want to form with Blogger
Not all habits are formed on your own. Share your experience with others to increase motivation and triggers
The more others comment and be a part of your experience, the more it will remind you to keep going. Make it social, don’t let them see you fail. Blog about habit formation on your mobile device.

overview
Each tool provides several elements that encourage people to perform health behaviors. All come together to add one behavior –a new health habit – on top of an existing one – the use of mobile technology to form health habits in women ages 18-30.
Mobile communication
Sharing
Creating
Health
Habits
Social Pressure
Reminders & Triggers
Tracking & Measuring

Top 5 Tools for Creating Health Habits

by Cristina Cordova on Apr 21, 2010

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