| Previous studies have shown that a large percentage of people search for someone else's experience with health behavior change. Previous studies have also shown that stories encoding health information are an effective tool for promoting health behavior change. By collecting health stories from blogs, social networks, public forums and other online resources we can create a database of stories that could be tailored to users for health interventions. In this thesis I explore the delivery of health stories tailored to users based on health behavior change theory, demographics and quality metrics. The medium of delivering these stories is also explored in a pilot study with 103 participants. |
