HealthQuest: Technology That Encourages Physical Activity in the Workplace

To offset sedentary lifestyles, physical activity is widely promoted in the workplace. In this paper, we present HealthQuest, a mixed reality system to motivate employees’ physical activity. HealthQuest leverages a company facility’s existing physical infrastructure augmented with distributed kiosks. Users engage in wellness learning quests by walking from kiosk to kiosk in the environment. The system assists in achieving company health promotion goals.

Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Interactive Computing,  

   Hyungsin Kim & Ellen Yi-Luen Do

2. College of Architecture,  

   Matthew Swarts, Seunghyun “Tina” Lee & Ellen Yi-Luen Do

3. GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 5th Street, Atlanta, GA, 30332

   Hyungsin Kim, Matthew Swarts, Seunghyun “Tina” Lee & Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Editors and Affiliations

1. Yonsei University, 120-749, Seoul, Korea

   Yeunsook Lee  & Mignon Park  & 

2. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 689-798, Ulsan, Korea

   Z. Zenn Bien

3. Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, 91011, Evry Cedex, France

   Mounir Mokhtari

4. Kyung Hee University, 446-701, Yongin, Korea

   Jeong Tai Kim

5. National Rehabilitation Center Research Institute, 142-884, Seoul, Korea

   Jongbae Kim

6. Seoul National University of Technology, 139-743, Seoul, Korea

   Heyoung Lee

7. Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4040, Linz, Austria

   Ismail Khalil

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