How Are Digital Coaches’ Anthropomorphic Features Experienced by Young Men? Adopting a Digital Coach to Increase Exercise and Reduce Sitting

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dc.contributor.authorHolkkola, Matilda
dc.contributor.authorWelling, Julianna
dc.contributor.authorFrank, Lauri
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-26T21:05:04Z
dc.date.available2024-12-26T21:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-07
dc.description.abstractFinnish young men (aged 18–39) are found to exercise too little and sit too much, leading to personal and public health issues. It is suggested that young men are a group that could adopt a digital coach to help them with behavioral change toward a healthier lifestyle. Anthropomorphic features may help users in adopting digitized services with nonhuman actors. Thus, in this qualitative study, we examined (1) how digital coaches’ perceived anthropomorphic features are experienced and (2) how the adoption of digital coaches is experienced by young men. Nine Finnish men aged 20-31 who wanted to change their poor exercising or sitting habits used a digital coach mobile application for one month. After that, individual semi-structural thematic interviews with these participants were conducted and analyzed by phenomenographic analysis. Several mental and visual anthropomorphic features whose presence or absence contribute to the experience and adoption of digital coaches were identified.
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dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2025.097
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-8-8
dc.identifier.other81dd5ee1-8524-416d-bc92-0e788fcf9a7b
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/108935
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectAge and Generational Aspects in Technology Acceptance and Use
dc.subjectanthropomorphism, digital coach, sedentary men, technology adoption, young men
dc.titleHow Are Digital Coaches’ Anthropomorphic Features Experienced by Young Men? Adopting a Digital Coach to Increase Exercise and Reduce Sitting
dc.typeConference Paper
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