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Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
Sunny Consolvo,Katherine Everitt,Ian Smith,James A. Landay +3 more
- pp 457-466
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Houston, a prototype mobile phone application for encouraging activity by sharing step count with friends is described and four design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity are presented, derived from a three-week long in situ pilot study that was conducted with women who wanted to increase their physical activity.Abstract:
Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health problems and medical conditions. Medical experts agree that physical activity is critical to maintaining fitness, reducing weight, and improving health, yet many people have difficulty increasing and maintaining physical activity in everyday life. Clinical studies have shown that health benefits can occur from simply increasing the number of steps one takes each day and that social support can motivate people to stay active. In this paper, we describe Houston, a prototype mobile phone application for encouraging activity by sharing step count with friends. We also present four design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity that we derived from a three-week long in situ pilot study that was conducted with women who wanted to increase their physical activity.read more
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