Question: How will using a smartphone help reduse obesiety?

Katie Pickering answered on 17 Nov 2014:

Hi Max B,

Smartphones are very sophisticated pieces of technology and can perform many functions. I am specifically looking at physical activity related apps. I want to understand what it is about them that people like and don’t like, and for those people that don’t use them and are overweight what we could do to make them more appealing to them. we know that people look at theor phones around 160 times per day so we also know that we could send health and physical activity realted messgaea to them through their phones as they would definitely see them. Much of the treatment of obesity is educating people about how to become healthier and this is a really good way of doing that,