The effect of augmented feedback on promoting physical activity

using mobile technologies

Schools first, Information Technology second (Workshop)

Corfu, 2011

Ionian UniversityDepartment of Informatics

Msc Students:Boletsis, C.Chasanidou, D.

Persuasive technologies & Augmented Feedback

Augmented Feedbackthe use of an external device to increase an individual's awareness of various events by providing information, that accompany performance.

Motivation:The constant rising and high implementation of

persuasive technologies, combined with the high penetration of commercial fitness software and

hardware, provided the motivation for this study.

Hypothesis:Providing augmented feedback during physical activity leads to greater performance, better experience, and higher motivation for the trainee.

Experimental Design•Participants: 2 users, physically active•Measurement Instruments:

GPS loggerEndomondo mobile application

•Variables:

•Post-exercise Questionnaire

Procedure:•place: natural environment•scenario of the experiment: calories exergame•15-minute trial with devices•three consecutive uses of each device•data was digitally collected from workouts•questionnaire

quantitative results per participant

elevation results

Results

Results:1st participant

•increase of 10,1% using Endomondo•increase of 0,01% using the GPS logger

2nd participant•increase of 0,03% using Endomondo•increase of 0,01% using the GPS logger

Results:Word clouds

The contribution of this work is summarized as follows:

•Present a thorough experimental setup for measuring augmented feedback, both quantitatively, as well as, qualitatively.•Perform a small scale experiment, under realistic conditions, leading to experimental results in persuasive mobile health applications field.•Use a novel questionnaire approach for extracting unbiased qualitative characteristics and process them quantitavely.

Further research directionsmore repeats/workouts in a large period of time technologically advanced, mobile fitness devices (augmented reality)game-like motivation for trainees based on the framework of captology

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