Health Avatars: Your Gateway to Better Lifestyle Choices

In today's fast-paced world, taking care of our health and making positive lifestyle choices is as imperative as ever! The current application uses age-progressed avatars in the hopes to promote future self-continuity (connectedness to our future self)

Past research looks into avatars as a means to induce positive habits and how avatars can influence user behaviour.

Please see below a reference list for additional readings if you are interested.

• The Proteus Effect: Behavioral Changes via Avatars

  Investigates how adopting avatars with specific characteristics (e.g., tall or attractive) can influence participant's confidence and interactions in virtual and real worlds.

• Age-Progressed Images and Savings Behaviour

  Investigates how viewing age-progressed avatar images of oneself can motivate future-oriented behaviors, financial planning for the future and increased retirement savings.

• Self-Avatars and Presence in Virtual Reality

  Explores how avatars can enhance a user's sense of presence in virtual environments and, in turn, influence decision-making.

• Avatar Personalization and Identity Expression

  This study investigated how users make avatars in virtual worlds to reflect or enhance aspects of their identity. Whilst exploring how this affects their in-game interactions.

• Behavioral Change with Digital Future Selves

  Focuses on the impact of age-progressed images in encouraging positive behaviors and health-conscious decisions.