@INPROCEEDINGS{Cora2001:Dont,
AUTHOR="Roberto Coral and Flavio Esposito and Jeremiah Weinstock",
TITLE="Don't Go There: A {Zero-Permission} Geofencing App to Alleviate Gambling
Disorders",
BOOKTITLE="2020 IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communications \& Networking Conference
(CCNC) (CCNC 2020)",
ADDRESS="Las Vegas, USA",
DAYS=10,
MONTH=jan,
YEAR=2020,
KEYWORDS="localization; GPS; geofence; mobile sensor; mHealth; android",
ABSTRACT={Current efforts to address and alleviate the suffering and harms associated
with gambling disorder (GD) predominately involve in-person psychotherapy
or static web-based interventions, while dynamic, proactive approaches to
the treatment of GD are needed. Currently, several mHealth apps for GD
exist, but none are empirically validated and, even though they could be
potentially useful, these interventions are static, reactive approaches and
they are not based on the geofencing principle. Advances in smartphone
technology now allow for a paradigm shift. Just-in-time adaptive
interventions (JITAI) are technology-based dynamic interventions that
proactively respond to time-varying information to provide intervention at
critical moments. 
In this paper, we present a novel JITAI mHealth app for GD called {"}Don't
Go There{"} (DGT). It capitalizes on smartphones' global positioning
software (GPS) or other zero-permission embedded sensors to recognizes a
user's location. When the patient turns off the GPS capabilities, we infer
the geolocation solving a probabilistic route matching problem. The purpose
of DGT is to construct a geofence around a gambler's favored gambling
establishment, to discourage participation. We hypothesize that the
deployment of this app could lead to a reduction in gambling behavior and
problems and improve psychological functioning.}
}