Chapter 1 16 It is our aim, by conducting exploratory research, to gather knowledge and insight about the target group, with the goal of learning more about the characteristics of the virtual coach to be developed, that makes it effective for the target group of emotional eaters, using elements from the DBT. This thesis This paragraph entails the Aims and research question we want to answer followed by this thesis. The booklet consists of five publications, being the five chapters that together present a narrative about the realization of this research. This thesis consists of seven chapters. Chapter 2 and 3 focus on conducting a design case study, followed by a rationale for designing a Personalized Virtual Coach. Chapter 4, 5 and 6 focus respectively on the application of coaching and emotion regulation approaches, testing them in real-life settings with participants, originating from the target groups. Chapter 7 encompasses the overall discussion. Our study does not involve the development of a functional prototype; instead, it concentrates on examining the prerequisites and designing aspects of the application. Aim and research question The aim of this thesis is to gain knowledge to support emotional eaters to cope with emotional eating behaviour in a self-help setting, a setting that matches the right moment, and is in line with the context. To accomplish this, we must gain knowledge about the needs of emotional eaters in terms of virtual coaching and self-management. This results in the following research question: “How can virtual coaching facilitate emotional eaters to cope with self management of their emotional eating behaviour?” Chapter 2 “Developing a Personalised Virtual Coach ‘Denk je zèlf!’ for Emotional Eaters through the Design of Emotion-Enriched Personas” focuses on conducting a design case study aimed at identifying the needs of the target population. A contextual inquiry will be performed by collecting data via questionnaires and interviews, with emotional eaters and healthcare practitioners (dieticians, physical therapists and psychologists), to develop personas2 according to the classification model of LeRouge, and van Velzen [89-90], as a starting point to derive a conceptual user model on technical, demographic and care-specific characteristics. The aim of this design case study is to develop a protoype of a virtual coach. 2 A persona is a virtual representative of a target group (bron)
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