Check In To Better Health

Check In to Better Health
A conceptual design to motivate young women to apply sunscreen daily by using a mobile check-in application for the iPhone. By Cristina Cordova

User Description
Women living together will be able to share the experience and compete against each other
Stanford students are likely to be aware of the health benefits of sunscreen
Women are more likely to use beauty products, including products with sunscreen
iPhone users are likely to be tech-savvy and enjoy using mobile applications

Use of Technology with User
User receives text telling her to use
sunscreen at her preferred wakeup time
User wakes up in the morning!
User uses preferred sunscreen
Product provided & applies it
User opens Gowalla, a mobile check-in app
and checks into TRIDELT SUNSCREEN
User sees other friends
taking on the challenge
User competes to be at the top of the leaderboard!

Results of 10 Day Challenge
When users missed a day or two, the morning text told user: “You’ve gone two days without sunscreen!”
Mobile follow-ups led to 4 4 days of 100% habit compliance
Sent users a summary of their check-ins for the week to the entire group, utilizing social pressure
Users began to wake up and check-in without trigger after day 2

Summary
A fun, social and mobile application to form health habits!

Check In To Better Health

by Cristina Cordova on Apr 28, 2010

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