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  1. How AI Coaches People: A Review of Personalised Coaching Technologies

    Article • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Jonathan Vitale

  2. Factors Associated with Problematic Mobile Phone Use among Sub-Saharan African Populations: Moderating Effect of Gender

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Stephen Gilbert, RITA ORJI

  3. MyShoppingBuddy: Exploring Persuasive Strategies and Design Opportunities for Gamifying Real World Shopping Experiences

    Article • Games Research and Practice, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Grace Ataguba

  4. Exploring Large Language Models for Personalized Recipe Generation and Weight-Loss Management

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Grace Ataguba

  5. Bridging the Privacy Gap: Analyzing Nigerian Disclosure Behaviors and Developing Culturally Relevant Interventions

    Article • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  6. Future Research Directions for an Afrocentric E-Learning System

    Article • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  7. BehavRec: Workshop on Recommendations for Behavior Change

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  8. Adaptive and Personalized Persuasive Technologies (ADAPPT 2023) Workshop

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ifeoma Adaji, RITA ORJI

  9. A Usability Evaluation of a Software Framework for Designing Persuasive Games.

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  10. A wallpaper for absent-minded smartphone use

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Chukwuemeka Nwagu

  11. EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interactions in Immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality: A Systematic Review

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Chukwuemeka Nwagu

  12. Tailoring a Persuasive Game to Promote Secure Smartphone Behaviour

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Anirudh Ganesh, RITA ORJI

  13. Augmented Reality and Machine Learning in Health: A Systematic Review

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  14. Nutri-Smober: A Preliminary Study to Investigate the Domain Dependency of Behaviour Change Strategies in Persuasive Games

    Article • November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  15. Exploring Variance in Users’ Moods across Times, Seasons, and Activities: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  16. Security of Social Networks: Lessons Learned on Twitter Bot Analysis in the Literature

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sanaz Adel Alipour, RITA ORJI, Malcolm Heywood

  17. The Journey: An AR Gamified Mobile Application for Promoting Physical Activity in Young Adults

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  18. Sans Tracas: A Cross-platform Tool for Online EEG Experiments.

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ronit Desai, RITA ORJI

  19. Augmented and Virtual Reality-Driven Interventions for Healthy Behavior Change: A Systematic Review

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  20. Mobile Applications for Health and Wellness: A Systematic Review

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  21. Insights From Longitudinal Evaluation of Moodie Mental Health App

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  22. Improving Mental Health Among Working-Class Indian Women: Insight From An Interview Study

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  23. Culture and Health Belief Model: Exploring the Determinants of Physical Activity Among Saudi Adults and the Moderating Effects of Age and Gender

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Najla Almutari

  24. Adaptive and Personalized Persuasive Technologies

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  25. Gender and the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Game for Disease Awareness Targeted at the African Audience

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  26. A Persuasive Game to Promote Awareness and Adoption of COVID-19 Precautionary Measures

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  27. A Health Belief Model Approach to Evaluating Maternal Health Behaviors among Africans - Design Implications for Personalized Persuasive Technologies

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, ifeyinwa Ajah

  28. Persuasiveness of a Game to Promote the Adoption of COVID-19 Precautionary Measures and the Moderating Effect of Gender

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  29. A persuasive game to improve user-awareness and self-efficacy towards secure smartphone behaviour

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Anirudh Ganesh

  30. Tailoring Persuasive and Behaviour Change Systems Based on Stages of Change and Motivation

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  31. COVID Dodge: An African-Centric game for promoting COVID-19 Safety Measures

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  32. A Mixed Method Approach to Evaluating eCommerce Website: Towards Socially-sensitive Guidelines for Future Design

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  33. Design Opportunities for Persuasive Mobile Apps to Support Maternal and Child Healthcare and Help-seeking Behaviors

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    ifeyinwa Ajah, RITA ORJI, JOSEPH IGWE, DR IGNATIUS OGBAGA

  34. Heuristic Evaluation of an African-centric Mobile Persuasive Game for Promoting Safety Measures Against COVID-19

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  35. Age Differences in Problematic Mobile Phone Usage among Africans

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  36. Insider Perspectives of Human-Computer Interaction for Development Research: Opportunities and Challenges

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  37. Public Perception of Mental Illness: Opportunity for Community-based Collaborative Intervention

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  38. Towards a Research Agenda for Gameful Creativity

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  39. Personalized Persuasion to Promote Positive Work Attitudes in Public Workplaces

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  40. How Effective Are Social Influence Strategies in Persuasive Apps for Promoting Physical Activity?

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Najla Almutari, RITA ORJI

  41. Developing Persuasive Mobile Games for African Rural Audiences

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  42. Socially Responsive eCommerce Platforms

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  43. UMAP 2019 ADAPPT (Adaptive and Personalized Persuasive Technology) Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Kiemute Oyibo

  44. Deconstructing persuasiveness of strategies in behaviour change systems using the ARCS model of motivation

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    RITA ORJI, Kiemute Oyibo

  45. Socially-driven persuasive health intervention design: Competition, social comparison, and cooperation

    Article • Health Informatics Journal, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    RITA ORJI

  46. Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  47. Tracking feels oppressive and ‘punishy’: Exploring the costs and benefits of self-monitoring for health and wellness

    Article • Digital Health, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    RITA ORJI

  48. A Framework and Taxonomy of Videogame Playing Preferences

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Rina Renee Wehbe, RITA ORJI, Lennart Nacke

  49. Positive Gaming

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI, Kellie Vella, Lennart Nacke

  50. The Topicality of Agent-Based Modeling/Multi Agent Systems in Human Computer Interaction Research

    Article • November 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI

  51. Player Type Models

    Article • May 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    RITA ORJI