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This thesis investigates the challenge of increasing patient exercise adherence in a self-managed telephysiotherapy setting concerning opportunities of persuasive design interventions. It shows how active patient engagement can be increased by combining offline and online solutions that mutually support each other in guiding the patient and integrating his recovery process into his personal lifestyle. This was achieved through a user-centered design approach which highlighted the patient's needs, motivation and challenges and enabled to develop intervention strategies that could be adapt to the patient's recovery requirement in a collaborative process with the caregiver. The project's outcome was a design concept in form of a smartphone app which works with tangible trigger stickers as a solution to cennect the patient and caregiver effectively. Based on the developed interaction process of the patient treatment journey, a design guideline was formulated and complemented with future recommendations.