Enhancing physical activity on the dance floor through a mobile phone application
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Public Health, Human-Computer Interaction
- Keywords
- dance music, physical activity, DJ, dance floor, disc jockey, behavioral change, mobile application, smartphone
- Copyright
- © 2014 Ly et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Enhancing physical activity on the dance floor through a mobile phone application. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e225v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.225v1
Abstract
Research indicates that there is a potential for persuasive technologies to be used as a means for increasing physical activity. In this exploratory work, we developed a mobile web application to gather movement data to explore the potential of a health tool in the context of a dance floor to promote physical activity. We wanted to explore if the mobile application in combination with the context and mechanisms seen in other health applications could drive physical activity. In total, 208 participants generated 20,279 data points through the mobile application on the dance floor. The result from this work points out that the concept should be further investigated in more studies.
Author Comment
This is the PrePrint of a manuscript that will be a submission to PeerJ for review.
