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Designing persuasive application to encourage physical activity at workplace among older workers

Mohd Mohadis, Hazwani and Mohamad Ali, Nazlena (2016) Designing persuasive application to encourage physical activity at workplace among older workers. In: 6th International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications (DICTAP 2016), 21st-23rd July 2016, Konya, Turkey.

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Abstract

Regular physical activity are vital for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, which are highly prevalent among older workers aged 50 years old and above. However, maintaining active lifestyle was challenging for older workers due to prolong hours of sedentary behaviour at workplace. In this study, we attempt to identify design requirements of a persuasive smartphone application aiming to encourage physical activity at workplace among older workers. We applied a triangulation of user-centred design techniques that includes think-aloud, parallel prototyping and participatory design methods aiming to identify any usability problems, functionality issues, privacy concern, information sharing and visualization. Our older workers indicate that contextual awareness, visibility of cause-and-effect relationship, accuracy of collected data, information sharing and privacy control are highly imperative to be integrated into the design of smartphone-based intervention targeting at enhancing their physical activity behaviour in workplace environment.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Plenary Papers)
Additional Information: 7816/54930
Uncontrolled Keywords: behaviour change support system; design requirements; persuasive technology, physical activity application, workplace intervention
Subjects: T Technology > T Technology (General) > T55.4 Industrial engineering.Management engineering. > T58.5 Information technology
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology
Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology
Depositing User: Dr Hazwani Mohd Mohadis
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2017 09:38
Last Modified: 03 Feb 2017 09:38
URI: http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/54930

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