Strangers in a Strange Land: Designing a Mobile Application to Combat Loneliness and Isolation Among Foreign University Students

The findings presented in this article were obtained through a preliminary exploratory study conducted at the Offenburg University as part of the Fighting Loneliness project promoted by the institution’s Affective & Cognitive Institute (ACI) from October 2019 to February 2020. The initiative’s main objective was to answer the research question “How should an app be designed to reduce lonelinessThe findings presented in this article were obtained through a preliminary exploratory study conducted at the Offenburg University as part of the Fighting Loneliness project promoted by the institution’s Affective & Cognitive Institute (ACI) from October 2019 to February 2020. The initiative’s main objective was to answer the research question “How should an app be designed to reduce loneliness and social isolation among university students?” with the collaboration of the institution’s students.…

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Author:	Rogério Augusto Bordini, Johann-Christoph Münscher, Kim Annabell Baumgartner, Sara Hagos, Jennifer Hornig, Oliver Korn ORCiD GND, Stefano Gampe, Berkay Yaman, Philipp Yorck Herzberg
Publisher:	Springer
Year of Publication:	2020
Pagenumber:	7
Language:	English
GND Keyword:	Computer Science; Human Computer Interaction
Tag:	Gamification; Human Computrer Interaction; Loneliness; Mobile Applications; Social Isolation
DDC classes:	000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft
	600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
Parent Title (English):	Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
ISSN:	2366-5963
Document Type:	Article (reviewed)
Open Access:	Frei zugänglich
Institutes:	Bibliografie
Release Date:	2020/12/17
Licence (German):	Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-020-00171-6
Pubmed Id:	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=PMC7542090

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