The Runner's Journey: Identifying Design Opportunities for Running Motivation Technology

Menheere, Daphne; Lallemand, Carine; Spek, Erik van der; Megens, Carl; Moere, Andrew Vande; Funk, Mathias; Vos, Steven

doi:10.1145/3419249.3420151

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“…Despite recreational running being an extremely popular physical activity and sport (1)(2)(3), it is associated with high rates of injury (4,5), with prevalence rates as high as 66% (6). The vast majority of running-related injuries (RRIs) are overuse injuries (7) which occur when excessive, repetitive loads are applied to tissues beyond their adaptive capability (8)(9)(10).…”

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“The Running Injury Continuum: A qualitative examination of recreational runners’ description and management of injury”

Lacey,

Whyte,

O’Keeffe

et al. 2023

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Introduction: A critical step in understanding and preventing running-related injuries (RRIs) is appropriately defining RRIs. Current definitions of RRIs may not represent the full process of injury development, failing to capture lower levels of injury that many athletes continue to train through. Understanding runners' description and management of the injury development process may allow for a more appropriate examination of all levels of injury. This study aimed to examine recreational runners' description and management of the injury development process. Methods: A qualitative focus group study was undertaken. Seven semi-structured focus groups with male (n=13) and female (n=18) recreational runners took place. Focus groups were audio and video recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were reflexively thematically analysed. A critical friend approach was taken to data coding. Multiple methods of trustworthiness were executed. Results: Runners describe injury on a nine-level continuum, ranging from injury-free to career-ending injury. There are lower and higher levels of injury. Each level of injury is described across four categories of descriptors; physical description, outcome (effect on running and daily life), psychological description, and management. Conclusion: The Running Injury Continuum is a tool that can be used for injury surveillance (for healthcare professionals and researchers) and for research investigating RRI risk factors. Healthcare professionals, researchers and coaches must ensure they monitor the development of all levels of RRIs, across all categories of descriptors. Runners need to be educated regarding appropriate self-management strategies for lower level injuries, with access to evidence-based information being a critical management tool.

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“The Running Injury Continuum: A qualitative examination of recreational runners’ description and management of injury”

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O’Keeffe

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“…In academia, the process of creating journey maps and the resulting impact are described for specifc application areas (e.g., in healthcare [20]). Journey maps have also been documented as an inspiration tool to spot design research opportunities [18]. There is a limited amount of published work looking at journey mapping from a methodological perspective, and this body of knowledge is spread between several disciplines.…”

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Physical Journey Maps: Staging Users’ Experiences to Increase Stakeholders’ Empathy towards Users

Lallemand

Lauret

Drouet

2022

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Customer Journey Mapping is a widespread service design tool that synthesizes and communicates user research insights to stakeholders. In its common form, a journey map is a synthetic (typically non-interactive) visualization of the key steps of the users' experience with a service or product. By decomposing the elements of a journey map and staging them under the form of a physical and interactive installation, we intend to leverage the power of journey mapping to break silos and prompt employees within an organization to discover end-users journeys in a compelling and empathic way. This aims to support the user-centered maturity of the organization by developing employees' curiosity and empathy towards users. We illustrate this approach through a case study on railway passengers' experiences. We explore the value of richer transfers of user research insights through physical journey maps and discuss design processes and mediums enabling journey maps to come to life. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.

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“…Primarily, wearable devices in this market function to collect data and provide summary reports to assist running performance (5,6,7). This is achieved by the tracking of personal running data (8,9), planning of running goals (10), and/or by increasing a runner's motivation to train (9,11). However, despite the high incidence of running related injuries (RRIs) (12,13), and the popular use of wearable devices to manage other illnesses and injuries (14,15,16), there is a dearth of research investigating the perceived usefulness of injury focused wearable technologies in runners.…”

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A qualitative examination of the factors affecting the adoption of injury focused wearable technologies in recreational runners

Lacey

Whyte

O’Keeffe

et al. 2022

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PurposeUnderstanding users’ perceived usefulness and ease of use of technologies will influence their adoption and sustained use. The objectives of this study were to determine the metrics deemed important by runners for monitoring running-related injury (RRI) risk, and identify the barriers and facilitators to their use of injury focused wearable technologies.MethodsA qualitative focus group study was undertaken. Nine semi-structured focus groups with male (n=13) and female (n=14) recreational runners took place. Focus groups were audio and video recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were thematically analysed. A critical friend approach was taken to data coding, and multiple methods of trustworthiness were executed.ResultsExcessive loading and inadequate recovery were deemed the most important risk factors to monitor for RRI risk. Other important factors included training activities, injury status and history, and running technique. The location and attachment method of a wearable device and the design of a smartphone application were identified as important barriers and facilitators, with receiving useful injury-related feedback identified as a further facilitator.ConclusionsOvertraining, training-related and individual- related risk factors are essential metrics that need to be monitored for RRI risk. RRI apps should include the metrics deemed important by runners, once there is supporting evidence- based research. The difficulty and/or ease of use of a device, and receiving useful feedback will influence the adoption of injury focused running technologies. There is a clear willingness from recreational runners to adopt injury focused wearable technologies whilst running.

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The Runner's Journey: Identifying Design Opportunities for Running Motivation Technology

Cited by 11 publications

References 56 publications

“The Running Injury Continuum: A qualitative examination of recreational runners’ description and management of injury”

“The Running Injury Continuum: A qualitative examination of recreational runners’ description and management of injury”

Physical Journey Maps: Staging Users’ Experiences to Increase Stakeholders’ Empathy towards Users

A qualitative examination of the factors affecting the adoption of injury focused wearable technologies in recreational runners

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