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MotiVar: Motivating Weight Loss Through A Personalised Avatar

No / 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. / This research was funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme (project reference PB-PG-1215-20016).

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17731
Date05 March 2020
CreatorsUgail, Hassan, Mackevicius, Rokas, Hardy, Maryann L., Hill, A., Horne, Maria, Murrells, T., Holliday, J., Chinnadorai, R.
PublisherIEEE
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeConference paper, No full-text in the repository

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