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Walk2Build: a GPS game for mobile exergaming with city visualization

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2371664.2371670

Published: 21 September 2012 Publication History

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In recent years public health has become of great concern, in particular the personal and national economic burden resulting from increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Sedentary lifestyles are particularly serious for young people who are badly affected by obesity problems that impact on their current and future lives. In an effort to tackle this problem games designers are designing games aimed at motivating people to take part in physical activities and have coined the term exergaming. This poster presents a mobile exergaming application developed in Android Java and HTML 5 targeting under-active teenagers and young adults. The objective is to encourage users to increase walking by an incremental number of steps each week. This is visualized as an isometric virtual town on a web browser (with rewards for achieving targets) and published on Facebook to exploit social networking in supporting users. This poster will examine the motivation behind our game, design decisions, our prototype and concludes with future plans.

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion

September 2012

278 pages

ISBN:9781450314435

DOI:10.1145/2371664

General Chairs:
Elizabeth Churchill
Designing Associates, USA
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Sriram Subramanian
University of Bristol, UK
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Patrick Baudisch
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
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Kenton O'Hara
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

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Published: 21 September 2012

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