Re-Live the Moment
Agon Bexheti, Anton Fedosov, Jesper Findahl, Marc Langheinrich, Evangelos Niforatos · 2015
Contemporary psychology theory emphasizes that people are more likely to achieve planned behavior if they are reminded of previous good experiences of that behavior. In this position paper we describe the results of a pilot study exploring the experimental in-the-wild validation of these findings in the context of run exercises. Based on today's technological improvements in data collection (advanced mobile and wearable sensors) and data visualization to capture and replay running exercise experiences, we created an experimental prototype that takes pictures during one's run and, based on the music one was listening to at the time, plays back slide shows of the experience. In an initial pilot study with 10 runners, we equipped 5 runners (the experimental group) with our prototype for 10 days and afterwards interviewed them on how the system influenced their exercise behavior.