MotiVar: Motivating Weight Loss Through A Personalised Avatar
dc.contributor.author | Ugail, Hassan | |
dc.contributor.author | Mackevicius, Rokas | |
dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Maryann L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hill, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Horne, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | Murrells, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Holliday, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chinnadorai, R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-05T10:02:55Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-16T16:53:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-05T10:02:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-16T16:53:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ugail H, Mackevicius R, Hardy, ML et al (2019) MotiVar: Motivating Weight Loss Through A Personalised Avatar. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 26-28 Aug, Island of Ulkulhas, Maldives. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17731 | |
dc.description | No | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This work aims to develop a personalised avatar based virtual environment for motivating weight loss and weight management. Obesity is a worldwide epidemic which has not only enormous resource impact for the healthcare systems but also has substantial health as well as a psychological effect among the individuals who are affected. We propose to tackle this issue via the development of a personalised avatar, the form of which can be adjusted to show the present and the future self of the individual. For the avatar design and development phase, we utilise a parametric based mathematical formulation derived from the solutions of a chosen elliptic partial differential equation. This method not only enables us to generate a parameterised avatar model, but it also allows us to quickly and efficiently create various avatar shapes corresponding to different body weights and even to different body postures. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme (project reference PB-PG-1215-20016). | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | IEEE | |
dc.subject | Avatar design | en_US |
dc.subject | Partial differential equations | en_US |
dc.subject | Parametric design | en_US |
dc.subject | Weight loss | en_US |
dc.subject | Personalised avatar | en_US |
dc.title | MotiVar: Motivating Weight Loss Through A Personalised Avatar | en_US |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | en_US |
dc.date.application | 2020-02-06 | |
dc.type | Conference paper | en_US |
dc.type.version | No full-text in the repository | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1109/SKIMA47702.2019.8982405 | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-03-05T10:02:57Z |