Physical Activity Support Community TogetherActive - Architecture, Implementation and Evaluation

Elloumi, Lamia; Beijnum, Bert-Jan van; Hermens, Hermie

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“…Following the guidelines from Lewis (Lewis, 1995), the results from system usability (Table 1) are summarized into the 4 factors reported as mean values: overall system usability (OVERALL), system usefulness (SYSUSE), information quality (INFOQUAL) and interface quality (INTERQUAL). The table also includes the results from the previous study on the To-getherActive portal without the Community Coaching component (Elloumi et al, 2015). The overall score for the Main User was 4.3 and most outcomes are around 4 which indicates that it is slightly negative.…”

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“…The TogetherActive system (Elloumi et al, 2015) is a virtual community system that provides social support (emotional, informational, instrumental and appraisal) to people on their daily physical activities. It supports them in order to get physically active and to maintain an appropriate level of physical activity.…”

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“…Previously, we developed the virtual community TogetherActive (Elloumi et al, 2015) and we will use it as platform for the Community Coaching system. Based on prioritization of functionalities, we implemented the part of the system and integrated it in the TogetherActive system.…”

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ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity

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Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

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It is commonly known that physical activity is important to maintain health and prevent diseases. Many physical activity interventions have been developed to motivate people to be more physically active. Existing ICT-based interventions provide system-to-human feedback as a motivational strategy to be more physically active. In this paper we propose the ICT-mediated Community Coaching functionality as a novel motivational strategy based on human-to-human feedback where we transform the physical activity into a social activity. This paper presents the requirement elicitation, the design and implementation, and the evaluation of the Community Coaching system for physical activity. provide a human-to-human feedback. 132Elloumi, L., Meijerink, M., Beijnum, B-J. and Hermens, H. ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity.

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ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity

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Exploratory study of a virtual community for physical activity

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Physical inactivity is increasingly becoming part of today’s lifestyle, leading to a rapid increase in the incidence of diseases including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. These chronic diseases are, for the most part, preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle including regular physical activity. To help people maintain appropriate physical activity levels, researchers are developing interventions based on concepts from social science and ICT solutions. In this line, we investigate virtual communities (or social networks) as a candidate solution to support people in achieving their daily physical activity goals. This study observes and explores the differences between using the virtual community and a physical activity monitoring system on the physical activity level. We designed an exploratory study with a duration of 9 weeks in which an intervention group used a virtual community with a physical activity monitoring system and a control group used only a physical activity monitoring system. The results of this exploratory study demonstrate that using virtual communities may motivate and support people in their daily physical activity; in particular, we observed a decrease in the use of the system later than was observed in previous studies. Future investigations are needed to confirm the effect of the virtual community on physical activity.

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Physical Activity Support Community TogetherActive - Architecture, Implementation and Evaluation

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ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity

ICT-mediated Community Coaching to Improve Physical Activity

Exploratory study of a virtual community for physical activity

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