Dr. Nurulhuda Ibrahim, Soo Jun Hui, Yap Kay Li
REQUIREMENTS DISCOVERY OF A
MOBILE APPLICATION TO INDUCE
FOR HABIT CHANGE
Introduction
• Majority of Malaysian – inactive and obese – chronic illness.
• Malaysian are encouraged to change their lifestyle & bad habits
• Habit
• learned impulses to perform a particular behaviour, triggered outside of
conscious awareness by a particular context
• influence human behaviour, health, well-being, and quality of life
• bad habits should be changed - unfortunately habit is difficult to change due
to lacking of self-monitoring skills
Habit Day
• Influencing users behaviour using technology
• Mobile application - to assist users building healthy habits
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list of healthy habits
choose whichever habit to perform
challenge a habit for a minimum of seven days
challenge will be restarted – if cycle is not fulfilled
Platform: android smart phone
Method
• Semi-structured interview
• Market observation
• Participants - 1 senior lecturer and 4 fifth year’s students from MM
Program, SMMTC
• Procedures:
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Set appointment individually
Obtained consent
Collect demographic data
Start interview session (video/photo recording)
Try and review 2 existing habit apps
• Qualitative data analysis
Findings
• Functional requirements
Core functions
Manage healthy
habit
Reminder
Calendar
Chart
Requirements
User can add new healthy habit.
User can edit added healthy habit.
User can delete added healthy habit.
User can view added healthy habit list.
User can mark done healthy habit.
Habit provides difference task for every day.
Reminder to remind user done habit task.
User can select own reminder sound.
User can view habit progress by calendar
User can manage habits through calendar
User can view the habit progress by chart
Chart show the success rate of a habit
Priority
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Findings
• Non-functional requirements
Core functions
Performance
Usability
User interface
Requirements
System should update habit setting in 1 second.
System should update habit progress in 1 second.
The interface is easy to learn and navigate.
Goals are easy to be accomplished
No errors should occur when accomplishing goals
User interface should be colourful.
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System should provide light mode and dark mode
theme.
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The buttons should look like clickable.
The font is legible.
Font size for body text is 14px.
Icons should be fast to recognize by user.
Icon style is line icon.
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Findings
• Main Habits
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consume sufficient water
consume healthy meals
sleep well
regular exercising.
Findings
Conclusion
• Functional and non-functional requirements were identified
• needed solutions, required features, design aspect
• e.g. list of habit for selection, reminders to remind the user to perfom a habit,
calendar to track the habit’s progress, chart functions to view the overall
progress’s statistics etc.
Research Presentation End