Kiemute Oyibo

Postdoctoral fellow
Kiemute Oyibo

Contact Information

Kiemute Oyibo is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has published over 60 scientific papers, which have received over 500 citations on Google Scholar. The design of a culture-tailored persuasive health application called BEN’FIT, upon which his thesis is based, received the Gold Award at the Human Computer Interaction International 2019 Student Design Competition in Florida. In 2019, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, United States.

Research Interests

  • User modelling
  • User-centred design
  • Persuasive technology
  • Personalization 

Education

  • BEng Electrical Engineering, University of PortHarcourt, Nigeria (2006)
  • MSc Computer Science, African University of Science and Technology, Nigeria (2013

Publications

Oyibo, K. (2020). Designing Culture-Tailored Persuasive Technology to Promote Physical Activity (Doctoral dissertation, University of Saskatchewan).

Link: https://harvest.usask.ca/handle/10388/12943

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2020). Persuasive features that drive the adoption of tness application and the moderating effect of age and gender, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 4(2), 17.

Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/4/2/17

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2020). Gender preference and difference in behavior modeling in fitness app: a mixed method approach, Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 4(2), 21.

Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/4/2/21

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2020). Homex: Persuasive technology acceptance model and the moderating effect of culture, Frontiers, 2, 10.

Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2020.00010

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2019). Investigation of persuasive system design predictors of competitive behavior in fitness application: A mixed-method approach, Digital Health, 5, 2055207619878601.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207619878601

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2019). Investigation of the moderating effect of culture on users’ susceptibility to persuasive features in fitness applications,Information, 10(11), 344.

Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/10/11/344

Oyibo, K. and Vassileva, J. (2019). The relationship between personality traits and susceptibility to social influence, Computers in Human Behavior, 98, 174-188.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.01.032

Oyibo, K., Adaji, I. and Vassileva, J. (2018). Social cognitive determinants of exercise behavior in the context of behavior modeling: a mixed method approach, Digital Health, 4, 2055207618811555.

Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240967/

Oyibo, K., Orji, R. and Vassileva, J. (2018). Developing culturally relevant design guidelines for encouraging physical activity: a social cognitive theory perspective, Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, 2(4), 319-352.

Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41666-018-0026-9

Oyibo, K., Adaji, I., Orji, R., Olabenjo, B., Azizi, M. and Vassileva, J. (2018). Perceived persuasive effect of behavior model design in fitness apps. In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 219-228).

Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209219.3209240