TY - GEN
T1 - Phone row
T2 - 7th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2012
AU - Zwinderman, Matthijs Jan
AU - Shirzad, Azadeh
AU - Ma, Xinyu
AU - Bajracharya, Prina
AU - Sandberg, Hans
AU - Kaptein, Maurits Clemens
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Few people reach the recommended levels of moderate-intensity physical activity (MIPA). This study examines whether persuasive technology, in the form of a smartphone game, can help people engage more in MIPA. A smartphone boat racing game was developed that requires users to make rowing movements and therefore engage in MIPA to play it successfully. With these rowing movements, users can control the movement of a virtual boat across a virtual track on an external screen. Users were fond of the concept of the game. However, a sub-optimal implementation resulted in users not wanting to replay the game and thus not developing a habit involving performance of MIPA. The implementation of the concept was inadequate for testing the hypothesis that a smartphone game can help people engage more in MIPA.
AB - Few people reach the recommended levels of moderate-intensity physical activity (MIPA). This study examines whether persuasive technology, in the form of a smartphone game, can help people engage more in MIPA. A smartphone boat racing game was developed that requires users to make rowing movements and therefore engage in MIPA to play it successfully. With these rowing movements, users can control the movement of a virtual boat across a virtual track on an external screen. Users were fond of the concept of the game. However, a sub-optimal implementation resulted in users not wanting to replay the game and thus not developing a habit involving performance of MIPA. The implementation of the concept was inadequate for testing the hypothesis that a smartphone game can help people engage more in MIPA.
KW - exercise
KW - exergaming
KW - moderate-intensity physical activity
KW - persuasive technology
KW - smartphone game
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864678719&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31037-9_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31037-9_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864678719
SN - 9783642310362
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 55
EP - 66
BT - Persuasive Technology
Y2 - 6 June 2012 through 8 June 2012
ER -