Linking Human-Computer Interaction with the Social Web: A web application to improve motivation in the exercising activity of users.

Abstract

A current open issue in the Human-Computer Interaction research area is the study of applications that can work in the Social Web environment. This paper presents a persuasive web application for sport and health, designed to motivate people in their exercising activity. For the first time ever, our application makes available on a web browser some features previously available only through a mobile application. Moreover, it allows a richer interaction with the Facebook social network. This work shows how linking Human-Computer Interaction with the Social Web can be exploited, to improve the motivation of users to a more active lifestyle. This is done by providing an improved user experience, through the targeting of new types of devices and new communication networks.

Publication
2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications