Increasing User Motivation of a Mobile Health Application based on applying Operant Conditioning

In times of demographic change, especially in western countries, it’s getting more and more important to come up with cheap and efficient solutions to care for older people and their medical conditions. Now that smart phones are widely spread, they should be used to make life easier for their users. This characteristic can be achieved e.g. by developing mobile health applications for daily usage. In this bachelor thesis an approach is presented how the motivation of diabetes diseased people can be increased, to check for their own health, by applying concepts of operant conditioning. These concepts will be presented and how they result in a psychological impact on the user. Furthermore, an implementation of the designed concepts will be shown.