Over two-thirds of Americans are currently overweight or obese. Poor adherence to recommended levels of exercise is a major contributory factor. The goal of this study is to integrate a wearable activity monitor from AWare Technologies with a home-computer-based relational agent to provide daily physical activity counseling for overweight adults.

     This project is funded by and performed in collaboration with Partners Center for Connected Health .

Press:

• 4/6/07 – Mass High Tech - “Piloting a virtual health care helper: Partners Healthcare System to run trials of weight-loss coach 'Laura'”