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The Effect of Social Support Features via Buddies in App-Based Habit Building
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Author(s): Daniel Biedermann (DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany), Patrick Oliver Schwarz (DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany), Jane Yau (DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany)and Hendrik Drachsler (DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany)
Copyright: 2023
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 12
Source title:
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: David Parsons (The Mind Lab by Unitec, New Zealand)and Kathryn Mac Callum (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/IJMBL.318223
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Abstract
App-based habit building has been shown to be a good tool for forming desired habits; however, it is unclear how much individual features that are present in many apps contribute to the success of habit building. In this paper, the authors consider the influence of social support features by developing an app in which habit progress was shared with peers – 'buddies' in the app. In the study, 38 participants created habits and monitored their progress regularly with the app over three weeks. The participants were divided into a control group without a 'buddy' and a treatment group cohort in which they were assigned to buddies based on their desired habits. With each habit repetition, the app gave feedback on the number of repetitions and the automaticity of the user's habit. The results obtained show that the reproduction of app-based intentional habit building is effective and that automaticity could be predicted by habit repetition.
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