HOW BEHAVIOR CHANGE SUPPORT SYSTEMS INFLUENCE SELF-EFFICACY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY USING WEARABLES

Although Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS) are gaining ground in the field of health in-terventions, we lack an empirically grounded understanding of how the behavior change tech-niques (BCTs) that are implemented in BCSS influence behavioral outcomes. Based on the self-efficacy theory, we conduct narrative interviews to investigate the process along which BCTs ap-plied in wearable activity trackers (WATs) influence users’ perceived...