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From: Your Personal Motivator is with You: A Systematic Review of Mobile Phone Applications Aiming at Increasing Physical Activity

Overall, feedback, goal setting (both high and low levels), social sharing with familiar users, in either segregated or social network groups, and competition seem to be the most effective techniques in promoting physical activity.

High perceived ease of use, high perceived usefulness, and positive attitudes toward mobile phone applications strengthen the effects of mobile phone applications’ techniques on physical activity.

The research field is characterized by unelaborated theoretical development and in terms of methodology by many qualitative and few quantitative studies.

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