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. 2024 May 24;26:e54375. doi: 10.2196/54375

Table 1.

Summary of the strengths and weaknesses of each category.

Category Pros Cons
Generalization-explicitness
  • Well-proven effectiveness

  • Broad applicability

  • It cannot be tailored based on individuals’ situations and preferences

  • The effectiveness of the intervention cannot be maintained in the long term

Personalization-explicitness
  • Increase implicit belief

  • Focus on background activities

  • It cannot be adjusted based on individual situations

Generalization-implicitness
  • Initiative

  • Reflection

  • It ignores the potential impact from subtle cues that users may not be consciously perceive

  • Inaccurate data

  • The effectiveness of intervention cannot be maintained in the long term

Personalization-implicitness
  • Unawareness

  • Context detection

  • Not all health-enhancing behaviors are easily captured

  • Hard to define and identify cues in daily life

  • The effectiveness is questioned

  • Ethic issues