Task-involved versus Ego-Involved: Motivating children to exercise in a pervasive exergame

Andrew MacVean

doi:10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766922

Task-involved versus Ego-Involved: Motivating children to exercise in a pervasive exergame

Andrew MacVean

School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences

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This paper presents current work on a pervasive health and fitness game (exergame), designed to motivate children to reach their recommended daily exercise goals and facilitate long term behavioural change. I discuss briefly the current work in the area of pervasive exergames and highlight a common theme in the approach they take. Through my study of the relevant psychology literature, I identify a potential problem in this approach - the goal context that the majority of systems adopt. I hypothesize that a Task-Involved rather than an Ego-Involved system would be more suitable at addressing the problem of sedentary childhood behaviour. Finally, this paper outlines the design requirements of a pervasive exergame with the aim of assessing whether one goal context proves more motivating than the other. © 2011 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2011
Pages	405-406
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766922
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	2011 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: 21 Mar 2011 → 25 Mar 2011

Conference

Conference	2011 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Abbreviated title	PERCOM Workshops 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle, WA
Period	21/03/11 → 25/03/11

Keywords

exergames
location-aware
motivation
pervasive games
ubiquitous computing

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MacVean, A 2011, Task-involved versus Ego-Involved: Motivating children to exercise in a pervasive exergame. in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2011. pp. 405-406, 2011 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Seattle, WA, United States, 21/03/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766922

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