In this thesis the tamagotchi effect will be used to increase the motivation of people to do sports. The exergotchi's (EXERcise+tamaGOTCHI) physical and emotional state depend on the users' activity. The student in charge of this project gets an unique opportunity to cooperate closely with people from the company eGym. eGym bountifully provides access to their workout machines and also helps supervising the student to get familiar with their machines.
In the context of this thesis, the exergotchi will be integrated to the eGym website which is a social network for sports. Additionally, an Android app will be developed to enable the users to carry their personell exergotchi with them. During training, the smartphone-exergotchi will start to do the same training as soon as the user starts the training.
The students task is to optimize the concept itself (based on own ideas, on literature research, and on disuccsions with experts from eGym) and to implement the needed tools to perform an evaluation with 5 to 10 test users in an multi-session evaluation. The final goal is to answer the question if users feel more motivated to do sports when their own exergotchis health and mood depend on their activity.
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Title: | Exergotchi 3.0: Using the tamagotchi effect for sports |
Abstract: | In this thesis the tamagotchi effect will be used to increase the motivation of people to do sports. The exergotchi's (EXERcise+tamaGOTCHI) physical and emotional state depend on the users' activity. The student in charge of this project gets an unique opportunity to cooperate closely with people from the company eGym. eGym bountifully provides access to their workout machines and also helps supervising the student to get familiar with their machines. |
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Supervisor: | Tayfur Coskun |
Type: | DA/MA/BA |
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Status: | draft |
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