TY - GEN
T1 - ActivMON
T2 - 6. Konferenz Mobile und Ubiquitare Informationssysteme, MMS 2011 - 6th Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Systems, MMS 2011
AU - Burns, Patrick
AU - Lueg, Christopher
AU - Berkovsky, Shlomo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Global increases in overweight and obesity are linked to a trend towards decreased levels of physical activity. In combating this problem, we present ActivMON - a wearable ambient display which illuminates with a varying colour to provide a user with an intuitive visualisation of their daily activity level, as well as using a pulsing illumination to provide an indication of the activity level of other users. ActivMON is able to progressively increase a user's daily activity goal to encourage a sustained increase in physical activity. We present an initial evaluation of ActivMON, as well as discussing possible future research directions involving the use of wearable ambient displays to motivate physical activity.
AB - Global increases in overweight and obesity are linked to a trend towards decreased levels of physical activity. In combating this problem, we present ActivMON - a wearable ambient display which illuminates with a varying colour to provide a user with an intuitive visualisation of their daily activity level, as well as using a pulsing illumination to provide an indication of the activity level of other users. ActivMON is able to progressively increase a user's daily activity goal to encourage a sustained increase in physical activity. We present an initial evaluation of ActivMON, as well as discussing possible future research directions involving the use of wearable ambient displays to motivate physical activity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880411543
SN - 9783885792796
T3 - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)
SP - 11
EP - 24
BT - MMS 2011
Y2 - 28 February 2011 through 28 February 2011
ER -