Health Behavior Change in Virtual Worlds: A Systematic Review

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Abstract: Internet and web based interventions have been utilized as effective tools for health behavior changes. Virtual worlds also hold a great deal of promise in the future of behavior change because of the affordances the medium has in supporting many types of health care. This paper provides an overview of literature for virtual worlds as agents of health behavior change in the period 2000-2019. 20 papers were selected for analysis. The findings of the selected literature are summarized according to 2 broad characterizations: health behavior change technique, and intention of virtual world design.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2019

Author	White, Nicole
Advisor	Jeremy Bailenson
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Communication

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/yx466sy5534

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Masters Theses in Media Studies, Department of Communication, Stanford University

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