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PERVASIVE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ambient Interfaces that Motivate Changes in Human Behavior
Peripheral or ambient displays move information from the periphery to the center of human attention and back. Our research group is interested in the interaction and interface des...
Jodi Forlizzi, Ian Li, Anind K. Dey
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Designing games to motivate physical activity
Engagement with computer games causes children and adolescent users to spend a substantial amount of time at sedentary game playing activity. We hypothesise that this engagement c...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dipak Bhandari, Stephen Kimani, ...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Technological approaches to promoting physical activity
This paper reflects on the HCI community’s current and potential contributions to the problem of promoting physical activity. It does so by first presenting a conceptual overvie...
Julie Maitland, Katie A. Siek
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Seeing fit: visualizing physical activity in context
Elizabeth Goodman, Brooke E. Foucault
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Design requirements for technologies that encourage physical activity
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 probl...
Sunny Consolvo, Katherine Everitt, Ian E. Smith, J...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
Recent advances in small inexpensive sensors, low-power processing, and activity modeling have enabled applications that use on-body sensing and machine learning to infer people&#...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, M...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Interactive slide: an interactive playground to promote physical activity and socialization of children
We present a novel playground platform that will hopefully help in countering two important issues in children in the developed world: lack of physical activity and lack of social...
Joan Soler-Adillon, Narcís Parés