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Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity

Consolvo, Sunny, Everitt, Katherine, Smith, Ian, Landay, James A.·2006·Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

Overweight and obesity are a global epidemic, with over one billion overweight adults worldwide (300+ million of whom are obese). Obesity is linked to several serious health problems and medical conditions. Medical experts agree that physical activity is critical to maintaining fitness, reducing weight, and improving health, yet many people have difficulty increasing and maintaining physical activity in everyday life. Clinical studies have shown that health benefits can occur from simply increasing the number of steps one takes each day and that social support can motivate people to stay active. In this paper, we describe Houston, a prototype mobile phone application for encouraging activity by sharing step count with friends. We also present four design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity that we derived from a three-week long in situ pilot study that was conducted with women who wanted to increase their physical activity.

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Authors
Consolvo, S., Everitt, K., Smith, I., & Landay, J. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Intel (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2006-04-22
Pages
457-466
OpenAlex
W2129343065
Cited by
801
References
14
Citations by year
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FWCI
227.48
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Washington
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Keywords
mobile application, step counting, social support, obesity, overweight, design requirements, women, health behavior change

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