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ActivMON: A Wearable Ambient Activity Display
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Burns, P and Lueg, C and Berkovsky, S, ActivMON: A Wearable Ambient Activity Display, Proceedings MMS 2011: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) GI-Edition, 28 Feb 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, pp. 11-24. ISSN 1617-5468 (2011) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Information and Computing Sciences |
| Research Group: | Library and information studies |
| Research Field: | Human information interaction and retrieval |
| Objective Division: | Information and Communication Services |
| Objective Group: | Information systems, technologies and services |
| Objective Field: | Application software packages |
| UTAS Author: | Burns, P (Mr Patrick Burns) |
| UTAS Author: | Lueg, C (Professor Christopher Lueg) |
| ID Code: | 74989 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Deposited By: | Information and Communication Technology |
| Deposited On: | 2011-12-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-03-04 |
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