“…To promote longer-term play, designers and researchers are investigating various strategies and mechanics in addition to the game itself such as gamifying the exercise experience (Matallaoui et al, 2017;Mueller, Peer, Agamanolis, & Sheridan, 2011) and personalizing the experience (Göbel, Hardy, & Wendel, 2010), cultivating group cohesion using smart watch interactions (Esakia, Harden, McCrickard, & Horning, 2017), augmenting traditional exercise equipment with gamified elements (Geelan et al, 2016), adapting content presentation (Dias & Martinho, 2011), increasing situational interest (Pasco et al, 2017;Sun, 2013b), tailoring virtual coaching to individual personalities and many others. Research shows that experience PeerJ Comput.…”