CrowdWalk: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities

Tiago Ornelas; Ana Caraban; Rúben Gouveia; Evangelos Karapanos

doi:10.1145/2800835.2800923

CrowdWalk: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities

Tiago Ornelas, Ana Caraban, Rúben Gouveia, Evangelos Karapanos

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Abstract

Despite the initial premise of activity trackers, recent work has questioned their long-term efficacy in supporting behavior change. This paper makes two contributions. First, we present a study that inquired into individuals' ways of incorporating physical activity into their daily routines - and specifically, the "why, how, when and where" of physical activity. Secondly, we present CrowdWalk, a mobile app that leverages the wisdom of the crowd to produce location-based "walking challenges", and thus attempts to assist behavior change through highlighting opportunities for physical activity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	213-216
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450335751
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800923
Publication status	Published - 7 Sep 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - Osaka, Japan Duration: 7 Sep 2015 → 11 Sep 2015

Conference

Conference	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Abbreviated title	UbiComp & ISWC
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	7/09/15 → 11/09/15

Keywords

Activity tracking
Behavior change
Crowdsourcing
Persuasive technologies
Self-quantification

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Ornelas, T., Caraban, A., Gouveia, R., & Karapanos, E. (2015). CrowdWalk: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities. In UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 213-216). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800923

Ornelas, Tiago ; Caraban, Ana ; Gouveia, Rúben et al. / CrowdWalk : Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities. UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. pp. 213-216

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Ornelas, T, Caraban, A, Gouveia, R & Karapanos, E 2015, CrowdWalk: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities. in UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 213-216, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan, 7/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800923

CrowdWalk : Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities. / Ornelas, Tiago; Caraban, Ana; Gouveia, Rúben et al.

UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 213-216.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Ornelas T, Caraban A, Gouveia R, Karapanos E. CrowdWalk: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to inspire walking activities. In UbiComp and ISWC 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 213-216 doi: 10.1145/2800835.2800923

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