1. Stanford University, Spring 2010 CS377v - Creating Health Habits habits.stanford.edu habitbuddies A conceptual design by Victor Gane Benjamin Olmsted Design Challenge To: Design a system to help individuals develop the habit of applying sunscreen everyday. Time spent: 4 hours Project duration: 2 weeks

2. Stanford University, Spring 2010 CS377v - Creating Health Habits habits.stanford.edu habitbuddies Persuasive Purpose Create a habit of applying sunscreen daily to help reduce UV radiation and sunburn. Industrial Design ? Prize

3. Stanford University, Spring 2010 CS377v - Creating Health Habits habits.stanford.edu User Description Bikers who live off campus and want to wear sunscreen. They are aware of the dangers of living in a sun intensive climate but forget to apply sunscreen They are/have: - Professors - Graduate students - Undergraduate students - Routine mornings - Access to Email - Access to cell phones ?

4. Stanford University, Spring 2010 CS377v - Creating Health Habits habits.stanford.edu Commuting to Stanford Both Mary and Joe apply sunscreen before biking to campus. In the evening, they both review their stats at habitbuddies, and notice that they are doing better than any other pair. Go them. Joe moves off campus. His daily bike commute takes 30 minutes each way. Second day of his new routine, he gets sun burned. His roommate points him to habitbuddies. Joe signs up and gets connected with Mary. She experiences the same problem. Joe texts habitbuddies, which texts Mary. She relies with a [y]. Both buddies texting activity is logged Joe and Mary enjoy the spoils of having won this months Habit Challenge. They applied sunscreen most consistently out of all buddy pairs.

5. Stanford University, Spring 2010 CS377v - Creating Health Habits habits.stanford.edu Prototype of habitbuddies Daily buddy reminder text Both use sunscreen ? Prize "I'm wearing nothing but sunscreen... are you?"