Using persuasive mobile apps to enhance children's health and well being : a Sri Lankan experience

In this paper we claim that therein lies great potential in employing the use of persuasive mobile technology to improve nutrition and development monitoring of young children. A study based on urban Sri Lankan families was conducted to support the capability of a mobile app to supplement the existing paper based health record book. A number of interventions were deduced through user research that aimed to facilitate the self-efficacy of Sri Lankan parents. We present initial design concepts as software wireframes and the results from evaluating them with a set of 5 Sri Lankan parents. Our results show that parents were willing to comply with the recommendations of the mobile app. We conclude with future directions of the digital health book