On the design and prototyping of crowdwalk: leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities

• Autor(a) principal: Ornelas, Tiago João Franco de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1842
• topic: Activity tracking; Self-quantification; Behaviour change; Persuasive technologies; Crowdsourcing; Monitorização de atividade física; Auto quantificação; Tecnologias persuasivas; Crowdsourcing; Computer Engineering; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Individuals often struggle to move from the intention of attaining healthy lifestyles to their set goal. Long-lasting behaviors are hard to achieve, and despite the initial premises, the effectiveness of self-tracking tools has been found to wear off with time. In this work, we foster an alternative approach to the dominant narrative of quantification. We present CrowdWalk, a mobile application that leverages the wisdom of the crowd to produce location-based "walking challenges", thus supporting behavior change through highlighting opportunities for physical activity. We first present a study on how people find ways to perform physical activity in their daily routines. Based on these insights, we developed CrowdWalk, a tool that encourages those types of activities thus concluding with our design considerations for persuasive technologies. We present our full design and prototyping process along with a usability evaluation of the final tool. To begin with, we present a study on how people find ways to perform physical activity in their daily routines and then, we present CrowdWalk as a tool that encourages those types of activities thus concluding with our design considerations for persuasive technologies.