Healthy competition: A qualitative study investigating persuasive technologies and the gamification of cycling

Barratt, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.09.009

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“…A mobile cycling app can influence route choice and motivate cyclists to cycle more frequently and with greater intensity, especially when the application has a gamification mode [67,68]. These cycling applications are tools that are useful to understand how changes in infrastructure can improve the use of the bicycle [69] and also support transportation planning and Smart Mobility [70,71].…”

Section: Promoting Cycling With Digital Solutions For Sustainabilitymentioning

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Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Meireles

Ribeiro

2020

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According to the United Nations, cities will represent two-thirds of the world's population in 2050, which presents some challenges, especially to the transportation sector. To improve the population's quality of life and the sustainability of cities, mobility must be sustainable, and cycling will play an important role in achieving this. Literature shows that we can promote cycling with better infrastructures, through multimodality, and through behavioral changes. Promoting the use of bicycles through behavior can involve a number of aspects, but in this work, we explore what a digital platform should have in order to promote and increase bicycle usage, as well as to improve cycling conditions in a city. To evaluate what is needed, we conducted an analysis on different types of digital platforms that are available on the market in order to assess the main characteristics and outputs that they provide to cyclists, as well as the type of information that can and should be added to promote the use of bicycles in cities. Moreover, we also carried out a survey in a Portuguese mid-sized "starter cycling city", which showed, among other data, the relevance and type of information that a digital platform dedicated to cyclists should have in such types of cities.

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Section: Promoting Cycling With Digital Solutions For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Meireles

Ribeiro

2020

Sustainability

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“…Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that coded attractors have latent capacities, which may become significant attractors in constituting post or future riding spaces, thus reflecting Barratt's () finding that cycling can be digitally mediated in post‐performance practices. Off the bike and on social media, riders often discussed and joked with each other about the statistics derived from their digital devices during these weekly rides.…”

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“…In recent studies of cycling, spatial media has been a focal point, particularly with regards to the self‐tracking technologies that riders routinely use to record, map, and share data from their rides using mobile GPS devices and cycling social media networks (Barratt, ; Larsen, ; Pink & Fors, ). This work has largely focused on the socialising and performative role of spatial media in shaping cycling practices and identities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, scholars from across the social sciences have turned their attention to examining the impact of digital technology on cycling. Barratt () examined the ways that spatial media in road cycling led to a gamification of riding practices. His study revealed how the use of “virtual” time‐trial features and post‐performance data analytics influenced and encouraged competitive tendencies in riders.…”

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Spatial media and cycling spaces: A theory of coded attractors

Duggan

2019

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This paper contributes to the literature on the digital geographies of cycling and everyday mobility by further examining the ways that spatial media have become embedded in the riding practices of amateur road cyclists. Road cycling offers a useful case study for examining the complexity of these relations because it is a primarily mobile practice that unfolds across multiple spaces, all of which may be contextually mediated by people, technologies, and environments in various ways. Using empirical evidence taken from an ethnographic study exploring the impacts of spatial media in an amateur road‐cycling club, the paper demonstrates why geographers could pay more attention to the sociomaterial assemblages of leisure spaces. The paper complicates the notion that cycling is simply mediated, tracked, and datafied by digital technologies, by arguing that cycling spaces are mediated by a multiplicity of socio‐material modulations. Adapting the Deleuzian concept of attractors, the paper demonstrates how spatial media can be conceptualised as a form of “coded attractor,” which competes with other socio‐material attractors to transduce and shape the spaces and practices of cycling. It is argued that this theoretical approach could be applied by geographers and others seeking alternative theoretical perspectives on studies of spatial media and everyday mobility.

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“…The complexity of cycling commuters and the positive impact of bicycles in urban mobility challenge city managers and policy-makers to better understand and describe cycling patterns [38]. Also, the benefits for encouraging physical activity brought us back to the convenience to motivate people to cycle through mobile phones [39][40][41].…”

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Mapping Frictions Preventing from Bicycle Commuting

Pajarito¹,

Gould²

2018

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Urban cycling is a sustainable transport mode that cities currently try to expand. However, cities still do not take advantage of geospatial technologies to understand cycling mobility based on the behavioural patterns and difficulties faced by cyclists. This study analyses a geospatial dataset crowdsourced by urban cyclists using an experimental geo-game. About 20 participants per city recorded bicycle trips during one week and, by aggregating them, we found not only the cyclists’ preferred streets but also the frictions faced during cycling. We successfully identified 284 places potentially having frictions: 71 in Münster, Germany; 70 in Castelló, Spain; and 143 in Valletta, Malta. At such places, Participants not only recorded bicycle trips but also segments at lower speeds indicating a deviation from an ideal cycling scenario. We described the potential frictions preventing from bicycle commuting based on the distance to bicycle paths, surrounding infrastructure, and location in the urban area.

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Healthy competition: A qualitative study investigating persuasive technologies and the gamification of cycling

Cited by 60 publications

References 26 publications

Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Digital Platform/Mobile App to Boost Cycling for the Promotion of Sustainable Mobility in Mid-Sized Starter Cycling Cities

Spatial media and cycling spaces: A theory of coded attractors

Mapping Frictions Preventing from Bicycle Commuting

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