@inproceedings{mpcs:mobicare09,
 title = {{MPCS}: Mobile-Phone Based Patient Compliance System for
Chronic Illness Care},
 author = {Guanling Chen and Bo Yan and Minho Shin and David Kotz and
Ethan Berke},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
Ubiquitous Mobile Healthcare Applications (MobiCare)},
 year = 2009,
 month = jul,
 address = {Toronto, Canada},
 url = {http://www.cs.uml.edu/~glchen/papers/mpcs-mobicare09.pdf}
 abstract = {More than 100 million Americans are currently living with at least one chronic
health condition and expenditures on chronic diseases account for more than 75
percent of the \$2.3 trillion cost of our healthcare system. To improve
chronic illness care, patients must be empowered and engaged in health
self-management. However, only half of all patients with chronic illness
comply with treatment regimen. The self-regulation model, while seemingly
valuable, needs practical tools to help patients adopt this self-centered
approach for long-term care.

In this position paper, we propose Mobile-phone based Patient Compliance
System (MPCS) that can reduce the time-consuming and error-prone processes of
existing self-regulation practice to facilitate self-reporting, non-compliance
detection, and compliance reminders. The novelty of this work is to apply
social-behavior theories to engineer the MPCS to positively influence
patients' compliance behaviors, including mobile-delivered contextual
reminders based on association theory; mobile-triggered questionnaires based
on self-perception theory; and mobile-enabled social interactions based on
social-construction theory. We discuss the architecture and the research
challenges to realize the proposed MPCS.},
 note = {To appear.},
}