Development of "LvL UP 1.0": a smartphone-based, conversational agent-delivered holistic lifestyle intervention for the prevention of non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders

• Main Authors: Castro, Oscar, Mair, Jacqueline Louise, Salamanca-Sanabria, Alicia, Alattas, Aishah, Keller, Roman, Zheng, Shenglin, Jabir, Ahmad, Lin, Xiaowen, Frese, Bea Franziska, Lim, Chang Siang, Santhanam, Prabhakaran, van Dam, Rob M, Car, Josip, Lee, Jimmy, Tai, E. Shyong, Fleisch, Elgar, von Wangenheim, Florian, Tudor Car, Lorainne, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk, Kowatsch, Tobias
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Chatbot; Health Programme
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169208
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and common mental disorders (CMDs) are the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Lifestyle interventions via mobile apps and conversational agents present themselves as low-cost, scalable solutions to prevent these conditions. This paper describes the rat...