Technologies for Participatory Wellbeing: a Consumer Health Analysis of the Ongoing Scientific Debate

The participatory health revolution is shaping consumers’ health behaviors that are increasingly influence\r\nby people’s desire to play an active role in promoting a positive life functioning. Technologies are\r\naddressing the emerging needs of the participatory health, as they favor a proactive users’ attitude. This\r\nchapter describes the results of a software-assisted quali-quantitative study aimed at exploring the scientific\r\ndebate about technological interventions for wellbeing in the era of participatory health. Based on the\r\nstudy’s results, technologies for wellbeing in the participatory health era may be clustered depending\r\non the “context of delivery,” on their degree of personalization,” and on their inner “conceptualization\r\nof positive interventions”. According to a consumer health engagement perspective, those technologies\r\nare not mutually exclusive but can coexist based on the specific wellness needs and health engagement\r\nexpectations of their users.