Healthykids: weight management mobile app for children

The goal of this study is to create and build a mobile application to assist parents in helping their children get a healthier lifestyle. This mobile application used persuasive technology principles such as principle of suggestion, principle of tunnelling, principle of motivation and principle of self-monitoring. The Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) was used in the development of this project. The DSRM model consists of six stages: problem identification and motivation, objective definition, design and development, demonstration, evaluation, and communication. By adhering to this methodology, the mobile application was designed to incorporate persuasive technology principles and provide users with instructional videos as guidelines for utilizing the HealthyKids application. HealthyKids is a mobile application that has been developed using Dart programming language, PHP, and SQLite for database storage. This application uses Flutter as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool. The study included 30 participants who were parents of children aged between five and 12 and were actively involved in monitoring their children's physical activities using the HealthyKids app Additionally, the application was evaluated by the user using a User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) via google form. Based on the results and findings, most users found the system attractive, perspicuity, efficiency, dependability, stimulation, and novelty.