Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity

Consolvo, Sunny; Everitt, Katherine; Smith, Ian; Landay, James A.

doi:10.1145/1124772.1124840

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“…For example, pedometer devices can track steps taken walking or running but cannot monitor activities such as swimming and cycling. Therefore, designers should consider the most common physical activities undertaken by their targeted users [43]. Secondly, technology should allow users to access information regarding their past and current physical activity levels with respect to their goals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, if technology requires a physical device to be carried or worn, the everyday implications of this should be considered in the design of the device. Finally, the technology should provide reasonable goals that encourage a sustainable increase in physical activity [43].…”

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“…A number of similar technology-based projects have been developed with the aim of encouraging and motivating physical activity in specific groups including children, adults [43] and seniors [44]. An example is 'Houston', a prototype mobile phone application that requires its user to wear a pedometer to count their daily steps and then share these step counts with friends.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This system has been developed with the aim of encouraging physical activity. Feedback gathered regarding this application reported that it motivated participants to plan increased levels of physical activity [43].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Position Paper on Managing Youth Screen Time versus Physical Activity

Altamimi¹,

Skinner²,

Nesbitt³

2015

GSTF J Comput

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Abstract-Childhood obesity is becoming increasingly prolific and problematic. Contributors to childhood obesity include decreased levels of physical activity and increased sedentary behavior. Screen-based entertainment may be an important factor in the development of childhood obesity as children and adolescents prefer to spend time using electronic devices than exercising. While it is difficult to encourage children to cease playing video games, it is possible to change these passive screens to active ones. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been utilized by academics and researchers to promote levels of physical activity among young people. This paper is part of our continuous research into the use of technology in the facilitation and motivation of children to be more physically active. This paper presents the "MySteps" framework that has been developed to manage youth screen time and exercise performance statistics. By developing technology-based solutions, we intend to increase children and adolescents awareness of their levels of physical activity and screen time. Consequently, self-monitoring and management of screen time and physical activity levels may lead to more active living beginning at an early age and continuing throughout life.

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2015

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“…not universal: examples of non viability include monitoring technologies for healthcare and assisted living [6], for which it may be necessary to guarantee perfect accuracy.…”

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Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones

Musolesi

Piraccini

Fodor

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Continuous sensing applications (e.g., mobile social networking applications) are appearing on new sensor-enabled mobile phones such as the Apple iPhone, Nokia and Android phones. These applications present significant challenges to the phone's operations given the phone's limited computational and energy resources and the need for applications to share real-time continuous sensed data with back-end servers. System designers have to deal with a trade-off between data accuracy (i.e., application fidelity) and energy constraints in the design of uploading strategies between phones and back-end servers. In this paper, we present the design, implementation and evaluation of several techniques to optimize the information uploading process for continuous sensing on mobile phones. We analyze the cases of continuous and intermittent connectivity imposed by low-duty cycle design considerations or poor wireless network coverage in order to drive down energy consumption and extend the lifetime of the phone. We also show how location prediction can be integrated into this forecasting framework. We present the implementation and the experimental evaluation of these uploading techniques based on measurements from the deployment of a continuous sensing application on 20 Nokia N95 phones used by 20 people for a period of 2 weeks. Our results show that we can make significant energy savings while limiting the impact on the application fidelity, making continuous sensing a viable application for mobile phones. For example, we show that it is possible to achieve an accuracy of 80% with respect to ground-truth data while saving 60% of the traffic sent over-the-air.

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Effects of parent‐based social media and moderate exercise on the adherence and pulmonary functions among asthmatic children

Lin

Hung

Weng

et al. 2019

The Kaohsiung J of Med Scie

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Our previous study showed Tai‐Chi‐Chuan (TCC) training, a moderate exercise, at school improved pulmonary function and inflammation profiles in children with mild asthma. However, habitual practice is hard to maintain with the lack of continuous family and peer support. We investigated whether parental intervention with social media could enhance children's adherence to exercise at home and improve asthmatic outcome measures. Parents were opted to attend a 12‐week TCC classroom training, supervise home practice, and report to a four‐step web‐based social media platform to stay updated and motivated through logging activity and tracking competition. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), FEV1/FVC and peak expiratory flow (PEF) were measured before and after 12 weeks of training. Fifty‐three asthmatic children were allocated into non‐TCC (control, n = 12), TCC groups with moderate‐to‐severe (TCC‐S, n = 26) and mild‐to‐moderate (TCC‐M, n = 15) asthma. We found both TCC groups exhibited better pulmonary function than the non‐TCC control. TCC increased FVC in mild‐to‐moderate asthma children while more pronounced improvement in FEV1, FEV1/FVC, PEF and FeNO was noticed in moderate‐to‐severe asthmatic children. All TCC subjects retained greater participation and better interaction online except for low‐ranking families who dramatically dropped their practice 9 weeks later. For asthmatic children, moderate exercise improves pulmonary functions in a severity‐dependent fashion. Parent‐based Learn‐Practice‐Persuade‐Award wheel is a useful platform to motivate children engagement in physical activity. Classical social persuasive skills could enhance general parent‐child relationship but tend to decrease in persuasiveness over time in low‐ranking families.

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Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity

Cited by 636 publications

References 12 publications

A Position Paper on Managing Youth Screen Time versus Physical Activity

A Position Paper on Managing Youth Screen Time versus Physical Activity

Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones

Effects of parent‐based social media and moderate exercise on the adherence and pulmonary functions among asthmatic children

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