Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity

By Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, I. Smith, James A. Landay. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Human-Computer Interaction

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Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden (2008, methodology): “Unlike results from our prior work [5], participants did not feel that UbiFit Garden discouraged them from performing a particular type of activity, such as one not inferred by the fitness device.”
Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays (2008, positive): “Similar to Fish‘n’Steps, Houston [ 4 ] encourages individuals to take more steps each day.”
MAHI: investigation of social scaffolding for reflective thinking in diabetes management (2008, background): “Another application in this family [11], uses social communication between friends to achieve the same goal – promote increased physical activity.”
No longer wearing: investigating the abandonment of personal health-tracking technologies on craigslist (2015, background): “pedometers) prove effective at improving individuals’ physical activity [7, 27, 32].”
Fish'n'Steps: Encouraging Physical Activity with an Interactive Computer Game (2006, methodology): “For example, in a study by Consolvo et al [16] , groups of friends wearing pedometers could share each others’ goals and progress via mobile phones.”
Persuasive technology in the real world: a study of long-term use of activity sensing devices for fitness (2014, methodology): “Houston, which combined journaling with automated activity tracking was deployed and evaluated, leading to design implications regarding social pressure and support [6].”
Nudges for Privacy and Security (2017, background): “…in many domains and for many purposes: to encourage healthier behaviors through exercise [Segerstahl and Oinas-Kukkonen 2007] and physical activity [Consolvo et al. 2006], to reduce electricity consumption among college students [Petersen et al. 2007], and to help people quit smoking [Graham et…”
Communications of the Association for Information Systems (2009, neutral): “A shared fitness journal in a mobile application for encouraging physical activity [Consolvo et al. 2006].”
A lived informatics model of personal informatics (2015, background): “The pervasiveness of self-tracking tools has led researchers to study people’s use of commercial tools for tracking location [24,30], finances [20], food [11], weight [19,25], and physical activity [16,34] and to develop research prototypes to expand our understanding of usage [3,8,12,40].”
Healthcare in the Pocket: Mapping the Space of Mobile-Phone Health Interventions (2011, positive): “Results from a pilot evaluation of Houston revealed that messages of social support were very motivating and that competition among buddies was often seen as helpful.”
A Systematic Framework for Designing and Evaluating Persuasive Systems (2008, background): “Mobile phone application presents daily step count [3].”
It's not that i don't have problems, i'm just not putting them on facebook: challenges and opportunities in using online social networks for health (2011, background): “Social accountability has been proposed as a key mechanism for supporting the maintenance of healthy behaviors (e.g., [ 3 ]), and we observed that it is a significant goal in driving people’s health-related interactions online.”
A Survey of Transfer and Multitask Learning in Bioinformatics (2011, background): “Pedometers can quantify activities in terms of number of steps, and then suggest the users to reduce or increase the amount of exercise they undertake [28].”
How to evaluate technologies for health behavior change in HCI research (2011, background): “HCI researchers have developed systems for encouraging physical activity [2,7,8,24], healthy diet [12,17,23], glycemic control in diabetes [26,39], and self-regulation of emotions [31].”
Use and Adoption Challenges of Wearable Activity Trackers (2015, background): “Some systems represent users’ raw data activity in a form of a simple bar chart (e.g., Consolvo et al., 2006; Toscos et al., 2006; Maitland et al., 2006; Ali-Hasan et al., 2006).”