Digital health interventions have been emerging in the last decade. Due to
their interdisciplinary nature, digital health interventions are guided and
influenced by theories (e.g., behavioral theories, behavior change
technologies, persuasive technology) from different research communities.
However, digital health interventions are always coded using various taxonomies
and reported in insufficient perspectives. The inconsistency and
incomprehensiveness will bring difficulty for conducting systematic reviews and
sharing contributions among communities. Based on existing related work,
therefore, we propose a holistic framework that embeds behavioral theories,
behavior change technique (BCT) taxonomy, and persuasive system design (PSD)
principles. Including four development steps, two toolboxes, and one workflow,
our framework aims to guide digital health intervention developers to design,
evaluate, and report their work in a formative and comprehensive way
