A Health-Tracking App That Provides Personalized Feedback for Physical Activity and Dietary Behavior


There’s an endless list of apps that track your health, but MyBehavior is the first mobile app to include a suggestion engine that learns a user’s physical activity and dietary behavior in order to provide finely-tuned, personalized suggestions. Developed by researchers at Cornell’s Interaction Design Lab, MyBehavior continually adapts its suggestions by exploiting the most frequent healthy behaviors, while sometimes exploring non-frequent behaviors, in order to maximize the user’s chance of reaching a health goal. The researchers have been working on MyBehavior for more than two years and recently conducted a 14-week study with 16 people using the app on Android smartphones. The Interaction Design Lab is expected to launch the app sometime in September of this year.