Lessons from Practice: Designing Tools to Facilitate Individualized Support for Quitting Smoking.
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SUBMITTER: Bhattacharya A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5675113 | biostudies-literature | 2017
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Lessons from Practice: Designing Tools to Facilitate Individualized Support for Quitting Smoking.
Bhattacharya Arpita A Vilardaga Roger R Kientz Julie A JA Munson Sean A SA
ACM transactions on computer-human interaction : a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery 20170101
Many health care providers, with a variety of trainings, counsel clients on quitting smoking on a day-to-day basis. In their clinical practice, they draw from and adapt guidelines and research-based strategies to fit individual client situations and challenges. Designers of technologies to support quitting smoking can learn from these real world practices to create tools that better adapt to individual differences. We present findings from interviews with 28 providers with diverse experiences in ...[more]
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