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Amy Bucher, Ph.D.

Applied Behavioral Science for Health and Well-Being

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Eversource’s Energy Management Program: Strengths and Opportunities

Opower started the trend: Tell people how their energy consumption compares to their neighbors’, and watch them start to conserve electricity in order to move closer […]

Case Study , PsychologyPosted on: March 21, 2016August 22, 2017

The Best Coaching is Personal

First, a confession: This series of concurrent research findings was surfaced in the most recent issue of the Klick Wire, a weekly mHealth newsletter. That […]

Health , PsychologyPosted on: February 15, 2016

My First Streaking Experience

A few months ago, I spoke with Shape.com about a phenomenon they dubbed “streaking.” Streaking refers to performing a specific health-related behavior every day for […]

PsychologyPosted on: August 17, 2015August 16, 2015

How Do You Choose the Right Fitness Technology for You?

As I’ve discussed before, I use a Fitbit One to track my daily steps. I’ve owned it almost a full year and am surprised to […]

HealthPosted on: February 19, 2015July 2, 2019

A Simple Secret to Improve Your Running (Or Anything Else)

What if I told you there’s a nearly free, fairly simple way to become a better runner (or swimmer, or biker, or whatever it is […]

Health , RunningPosted on: November 24, 2014July 29, 2015

Why I’ll Abandon My Fitbit (Eventually)

Startup incubator RockHealth (which, incidentally, I think is an incredible organization) recently published a report on wearable sensors that’s grabbed a lot of attention in the […]

Motivation , Psychology , TechnologyPosted on: June 17, 2014

Tracking Your Health

I was excited to see this article in MobiHealthNews about a new app my company just launched called Track Your Health. You can check out […]

Motivation , TechnologyPosted on: June 9, 2014October 18, 2016

The Value of Feedback at Multiple Levels

One of the key tactics to support user competence through technology is providing feedback on performance. Ideally, the feedback does a few things: Acknowledges success […]

Motivation , Psychology , RunningPosted on: June 6, 2014

Big Brother’s in Your Pocket!

OK, I chose the post title just to be alarmist. I don’t really think that wearable and integrated trackers (for example, to count your daily […]

Innovation , PsychologyPosted on: May 21, 2014

The Power of Goals and Progress Tracking

After the Boston Marathon on Monday, the New York Times has a thought provoking analysis of marathon finish times. Theoretically, marathon finish times should be […]

Motivation , RunningPosted on: April 23, 2014September 10, 2014
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