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ActivMON: A Wearable Ambient Activity Display

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posted on 2023-05-23, 05:38 authored by Burns, P, Lueg, C, Berkovsky, S
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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Publication title

Proceedings MMS 2011: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) GI-Edition

Volume

185

Editors

H Hopfner, G Specht, T Ritz, C Bunse

Pagination

11-24

ISSN

1617-5468

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Kollen Druck+ Verlag GmbH

Place of publication

Bonn, Germany

Event title

MMS 2011: Mobile and ubiquitare Informationssysteme

Event Venue

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Date of Event (Start Date)

2011-02-28

Date of Event (End Date)

2011-02-28

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Copyright 2011 the Authors

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