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With the improvement of the quality of life, people can easily accumulate energy in daily life. How to motivate people to exercise daily to maintain health is already being a significant issue which is worthy of further study. We hope to design an entertainment app that helps users record their daily energy intake and exercise consumption, so that users can enjoy some fun rather than doing boring professional exercise guidance while achieving the purpose of recording.
According to the research, in the youth group, users always show a high motivation for the type of fitness of the game. After investigation, we summarised three reasons that most affected people's continuous exercise: laziness, busyness and boredom. Laziness is the nature of human beings, and we can hardly change this feature from the outside. For the second feature, external factors can't affect the job or learning busyness of each different user. Therefore, we focus our attention on the last factor. As a designer, how to integrate the boring daily exercise process into interesting and attractive elements has become the main goal of our project.
The main function of our app is to help users record daily calorie and exercise consumption values. We've added two game elements to motivate users to exercise for their health. The app consists of two main parts: diet and exercise. The highlight of this app is the integration of exercise and games, so that daily calorie intake and consumption become enemies, using the user's winning psychology in the game elements to enhance the motivation of exercise. In addition, the app includes other features such as healthy recipe recommendations, food calorie records, social conversations, and regular sports modes. Our target audience is young people between the ages of 15 and 35 who want to stay healthy through daily exercise but don't want to engage in professional physical activity.
We did the interviews about issues of health and exercise. Interview is a kind of efficient way for us to have a better understanding of users feeling and requirements, which could provide useful enlightenment for us in the health domain. And then we clarify the insights from edited interview transcripts. Many people thought that adding entertainment elements to the fitness application is a good idea.
We have done two workshops to facilitate our progress. The first one lets them show their opinions and communicate with each other about fitness applications. The purpose is to know other people’s thoughts about our concept and some comments about fitness cellphone applications related topics. From their feedback, we can avoid such drawbacks and mistakes that those applications have made. The second one is to test their satisfaction with our concept. In this workshop, we introduced our concept to invitees and let them gave some reflections for us. According to their advice, we add the recommended recipes.
Through the above research, we found that the lack of exercise motivation is one reason why users do not exercise. Through the study of previous literature, we find that entertainment can be used as an incentive point to stimulate user movement. After researching, most exercise app design concepts in the market focus on two points. One is a professional fitness app, another is a calorie-based app that records calories, and there are not many apps designed from the perspective of entertainment.
6.1.1.1 Welcome interface,Login interface and sign on interface We will design a welcome page for the app. The main body of the welcome page is the logo, so the advantage of the design is simplicity. In about two seconds, our app will automatically jump to the login or sign on interface, and we are committed to creating a smooth interactive experience.
Through previous research, we learned that users often need to be impatient during the process of filling in this interface, but the app itself involves the necessity of privacy and user data extraction. We must set the Login page and sign on-page. To avoid the above problems, in the design process, we will simplify the details of the information filled out by the user. This process takes about 10-15 seconds for the user to complete.
The primary level page is mainly divided into five parts. Home, diet interface, exercises interface, friend interface and hidden menu interface in the upper right corner.
6.1.1.3 Sub interface
- Homepage For the home page, we initially design a sub-interface, which will record the user's personal information in detail.
- Diet interface Dietary Interface We temporarily design an interface, and the subsequent design plan allows the user to click on the food icon in the interface to view the food calories. Although this app design is just an auxiliary function, we hope that the app's features include the user's needs more comprehensively.
- Exercise interface This interface is the primary function page of this app, which also reflects the mobile of this app. Because we will design a game in this interface group, we hope that we can use entertainment to motivate users to exercise.
- Friend interface This interface is the main feature page of the app, which reflects the sociality of the app. Because users can play games online with friends based on this app, this way to motivate users to exercise more.
- Top right additional interface In this interface, users can quickly add their daily diet intake through the icon in the upper right corner. Optimize the user experience and promptly and accurately record your daily ability intake.
Feedback
- Waiting for the loading page wastes too much time.
- Uncertain food weight is not convenient for people.
- Users interactions are too complicated
- Too many terminologies
Outcomes
- Do not set the loading page
- Pay attention to simplify using steps
- Sign-in process is too complicated
- Avoid using complicated words
6.2.1.1 Welcome interface, Login interface and sign on interface
- Homepage: We designed the game interface.
- Diet interface: We improve the diet icon.
- Exercise interface: The game interface is perfected.
- Friend interface: We have perfected the colour of the friend interface.
- Additional interface: It is worth noting that during the design of our lo-fi interface, two sets of solutions emerged. One is to use the previous record diet calorie and food recommendation interface. The other is to increase the ar scan part. The user can click the icon in the upper right corner to enter the are scanning interface. When the user scans the food, the calories of the food will appear on the screen. Which of these two options is chosen is in-depth, and we will decide based on the results of the assessment.
-Feedback:
- Three people feedback that they can not understand the game in the app.
- The yellow bar on the exercise page can not understand
- Exercise model is not clearly show
- Add more interaction when people
- The friend button should be placed inside the exercise
- AR scanning looks unnecessary.
-Change:
- Magnify the home icon
- Add an introduction
Feedback
- History recipes are needed
- Friend page content should be included in the exercise page
- The team should focus on the second game
- Adding a function of sending battle message
- Privacy setting needs to be adopted in the application
Insights
- People care about how much progress they have made in their fitness plan.
- As designers, we should think about users' privacy issues.
- Entertainment exercise can be an efficient way of motivation, but it needs to be designed carefully and creatively.
For the entire process of making prototypes, we believe that there are some advantages and disadvantages. Based on the user's interview, the aesthetics of the prototype itself, the page setup, and the interaction method are positive in the evaluation feedback of the three prototypes.Second, our concept is more advanced. There are also many game type apps, but there are not many apps that combine the two. We found the shining point in the research of the paper and completed the whole process. Third, combine theory with practice. From the initial choice of domain to the establishment of concept, all processes are based on research. If we have enough time for another round of user evaluation and testing, I think the app's features such as the game mode will be further improved.
Collecting research paper Each member came up with a concept draft to make the best decision for the next step
Contributed to background research, including interviews and transcripts. Finding insights and creating an affinity diagram. Testing some similar exercise or diet app.
We organised a workshop to get some data from the workshop and getting some insight into developing our prototype concept.
We set a plan, including building a hi-fi prototype for our concept, We set a plan, including building a hi-fi prototype for our concept, about the code part and visual organisation part.
The first one is about our adaptation to the concept, according to the last assessment feedback. we change the domain to Entertainment mobile application to motivate people who are interested in games and sport doing exercises. The target users will be more specific, and the purpose is more precise.
About the A5 our plan is two people finished research part including academic research and primary data and observation two people finished the prototype
About prototype, we finished paper prototype wire farm and-flow of the prototype the low-fi prototype then we finished about ten interfaces including log on interface and sport interface Our prototype's primary color is purple-green, and green represents a healthy diet.The design style is simple. We will strictly implement it in our design.
- Making the medium prototype and the final prototype
- Making the the website to show prototype
- Design final poster
- Participate in evaluation and interview
- Making the lo-fi prototype
- Assisted with me-fi prototype
- Design the final brochure
- Participate in part of evaluation and interview
- Participate in evaluation and interview
- Workshop photo taking
- Setting survey and questionnaire
- demonstration ppt making
- Participate in design process
- Participate in evaluation and interview
- Meeting Agenda Recorder