Exploring and Expanding the Functionalities of the MobileCoach Platform

Sammanfattning: Non-communicable diseases are the greatest burden on global healthcare, and because of today's limited health personnel, scalable behavioral health interventions are in need. MobileCoach is a behavioral intervention platform designed for aiding behavioral change amongst individuals. The work from this candidate thesis extends the MobileCoach platform by integrating the mobile application with Google Fit. Letting the platform collect the amount of steps an intervention participant has taken during a given day with the help of Google Fit. This required modification to the code of the mobile application, allowing MobileCoach to query for user Google Fit step data. As a contribution to MobileCoach, future work in the platform can consist of measuring the intensity of steps. That will give a better measurement of the health condition within the participant rather than only measuring the amount of steps.