HealthyTogether

Chen, Yu; Pu, Pearl

doi:10.1145/2592235.2592240

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“…Foster, Linehan, Kirman, Lawson, and James (2010) have examined sharing activity data via social media and have suggested the positive impact of friendly competitive interventions in the workplace. Similarly, HealthyTogether uses cooperatively set goals to facilitate fitness-goal commitment and stimulate more physical activity in group settings (Chen & Pu, 2014). Although personal health informatics have become increasingly common in everyday life, it is still a challenge to incorporate a health informatics system into a daily routine or a busy work schedule without causing any interruption of work or an undue mental burden (Chung, Jensen, Shklovski, & Munson, 2017;Gorm & Shklovski, 2016).…”

Section: Technology For Workplace Fitness Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

HealthSit: Designing Posture-Based Interaction to Promote Exercise during Fitness Breaks

Ren¹,

Yu²,

Lü³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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This research was motivated by a desire to help office workers change their sedentary behavior because a prolonged sedentary posture increases the risks of developing musculoskeletal injuries and chronic diseases, thus threatening their physical and psychological well-being. Regular breaks involving low-effort physical activities are effective in reducing the adverse impacts of inactive behaviors. In this article, we present the design of a posture-based interactive system called HealthSit, which was developed to promote a short lowerback stretching exercise during work breaks. Through a within-subject study involving 30 office workers, the effectiveness of HealthSit in facilitating the stretching exercise was examined by making comparisons between an interaction-aided, a guided, and a self-directed exercise mode. We also used HealthSit as a research probe to investigate the interactivity of the system in enhancing user experience and the psychological benefits of the fitness breaks. Compared with the other two modes, the interaction-aided exercise mode significantly improved the quality of the stretching exercise and enhanced motivation and emotional state. These results confirm the effectiveness of HealthSit in supporting fitness breaks as a new workplace technology. Based on our study, a set of design implications have been derived for technology-assisted fitness work breaks. KEYWORDSWork breaks; lower-back stretch; posture-based interaction; workplace fitness-promoting technology

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Section: Technology For Workplace Fitness Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

HealthSit: Designing Posture-Based Interaction to Promote Exercise during Fitness Breaks

Ren¹,

Yu²,

Lü³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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“…They found that the gamified app, which provided users with feedback on their calories burned, personal progress, and ranking, resulted in a change in participants’ attitudes toward physical activity as well as an increase in their daily step count. Chen and Pu 28 investigated the effectiveness of three gamification strategies (competition, cooperation, and a hybrid of both) in a mobile app called HealthyTogether . The app was connected to a Fitbit tracker that logged the number of daily steps and stairs taken.…”

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Investigation of persuasive system design predictors of competitive behavior in fitness application: A mixed-method approach

Oyibo

Vassileva

2019

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Fitness applications aimed at behavior change are becoming increasingly popular due to the global prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and physical inactivity, causing countless non-communicable diseases. Competition is one of the most common persuasive strategies employed in such applications to motivate users to engage in physical activity in a social context. However, there is limited research on the persuasive system design predictors of users’ susceptibility to competition as a persuasive strategy for motivating behavior change in a social context. To bridge this gap, we designed storyboards illustrating four of the commonly employed persuasive strategies (reward, social learning, social comparison, and competition) in fitness applications and asked potential users to evaluate their perceived persuasiveness. The result of our path analysis showed that, overall, users’ susceptibilities to social comparison (βT = 0.48, p < 0.001), reward (βT = 0.42, p < 0.001), and social learning (βT = 0.29, p < 0.01) predicted their susceptibility to competition, with our model accounting for 41% of its variance. Social comparison partially mediated the relationship between reward and competition, while social learning partially mediated the relationship between social comparison and competition. Comparatively, the relationship between reward and social learning was stronger for females than for males, whereas the relationship between reward and competition was stronger for males than for females. Overall, our findings underscore the compatibility of all four persuasive strategies in a one-size-fits-all fitness application. We discuss our findings, drawing insight from the comments provided by participants.

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“…A comparative study by Chen and Pu [8] has identified that designs encouraging cooperative rather than competitive behaviours might be more successful in motivating increased activity. Chick Clique [29] shares a group step count average, and allows messaging of encouragement to those users who are lagging behind.…”

Section: Social Aspects Of Activity Tracking Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Design recommendations suggest that apps enforce positive behaviour rather than punishments [8], and to experiment with designs that take nuanced treatments of competitive or cooperative elements [26]. Stickers for Steps is usable by a single participant, and there is no explicitly competitive component.…”

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“…Users reported enjoying our app individually (collecting) but especially collaboratively (swapping), consistently expressing face-to-face encounters as their favourite part of the experience. With research highlighting the benefits of supporting cooperative behaviours [8], we encourage more designs that provide swapping functionality to allow users to collaborate on their collections.…”

Section: Collaborate On Collectingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Stickers for Steps

Morrison

Bakayov

2017

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Morrison, A. and Bakayov, V. (2017) Stickers for steps: a study of an activity tracking system with face-to-face social engagement. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 1(CSCW), 82.There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Many systems have been designed to study social aspects in physical activity tracking. In most, social functions are performed at a distance, such as posting comments and achievements, or via in-app leaderboards. We present an activity tracking app designed instead to encourage face-to-face encounters. Stickers for Steps seeks to recreate the experience of a physical sticker book, where digital 'stickers' are collected in an album, but where stickers are awarded for reaching activity targets. Users will accrue duplicate stickers, which can be swapped with other co-located users over a Bluetooth connection. We explore the usage of our app, reporting on a trial with 33 participants. We find that our app successfully encouraged groups of users to swap duplicates, review progress and to discuss their levels of activity. We provide design recommendations for future activity tracking systems that could incorporate face-to-face interactions.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing • Human-centered computing~Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools

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HealthyTogether

Cited by 136 publications

References 22 publications

HealthSit: Designing Posture-Based Interaction to Promote Exercise during Fitness Breaks

HealthSit: Designing Posture-Based Interaction to Promote Exercise during Fitness Breaks

Investigation of persuasive system design predictors of competitive behavior in fitness application: A mixed-method approach

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