Everyone knows that motivation for a certain behavior, such as physical activity, changes over time. To encourage someone to do physical activity, such as walk 30 minutes a day, it is useful to find the person's highest motivation during the day and prompt the user at that moment. This is a proposal about a technology that could find this period of highest motivation.
How do you know when you're most motivated? It's not always easy to tell. But when you know, you can use it for some powerful physical activity-related behaviors!
Some people realized about the importance of physical activity in maintaining health and wellness. This perception exists because there is a lot of efforts and studies done to improve people health and wellness through physical activity. In top of that, it is known that motivation is one of the main effects of the people participation in sports or physical activity. Therefore, whether intrinsic or extrinsic, many have agreed that motivation plays important role in determining physical activity level. Hence, this study will be conducted to determine the relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The researcher has randomly selected 172 students from Faculty of Education UiTM as a respondent of this study. The study was conducted using questionnaire based on the Exercise Motivation Inventory (EMI) and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) which then been edited to fulfil the requirement of the study. This study is to examine the relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The results showed that there was significant relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The male respondent was found to have high level of physical activity better than female respondents.
How do you know when you're most motivated? It's not always easy to tell. But when you know, you can use it for some powerful physical activity-related behaviors!
Some people realized about the importance of physical activity in maintaining health and wellness. This perception exists because there is a lot of efforts and studies done to improve people health and wellness through physical activity. In top of that, it is known that motivation is one of the main effects of the people participation in sports or physical activity. Therefore, whether intrinsic or extrinsic, many have agreed that motivation plays important role in determining physical activity level. Hence, this study will be conducted to determine the relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The researcher has randomly selected 172 students from Faculty of Education UiTM as a respondent of this study. The study was conducted using questionnaire based on the Exercise Motivation Inventory (EMI) and International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) which then been edited to fulfil the requirement of the study. This study is to examine the relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The results showed that there was significant relationship between extrinsic motivations with the physical activity level. The male respondent was found to have high level of physical activity better than female respondents.
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2. What is the motivation wave?
As everyone has experienced, our motivation to
do a certain behavior increases and decrease
over time.
Motivation
Time
3. What is the motivation wave?
As everyone has experienced, our motivation to
do a certain behavior increases and decrease
over time.
At highest
motivation,
you are
most likely
Motivation
to do the
behavior.
Time
4. Finding the highest motivation
How do you find the user's highest motivation
for becoming physically active, such as walking
for 30 minutes?
5. Finding the highest motivation
How do you find the user's highest motivation
for becoming physically active, such as walking
for 30 minutes?
One idea: integrated mobile app that knows
location
sleep duration and quality
physical activity
when the user is free
6. Finding the highest motivation
How do you find the user's highest motivation
for becoming physically active, such as walking
for 30 minutes?
One idea: integrated mobile app that knows
location
sleep duration and quality
physical activity
when the user is free
...the more information, the better!
7. Mobile app for finding highest motivation
Using input data, the app calculates probability
of highest motivation for physical activity.
8. Mobile app for finding highest motivation
Using input data, the app calculates probability
of highest motivation for physical activity.
With high enough probability, the app pushes
notifications. For walking 30 minutes, the app
may suggest a good walking route and offer
two buttons: "Yes, I'll take a walk" or "No, not
now".
9. Mobile app for finding highest motivation
Using input data, the app calculates probability
of highest motivation for physical activity.
With high enough probability, the app pushes
notifications. For walking 30 minutes, the app
may suggest a good walking route and offer
two buttons: "Yes, I'll take a walk" or "No, not
now".
The app learns and tries to find patterns about
the user's motivation wave based on user's
passive and active input data.
10. Mobile app for finding highest motivation
Main features:
- Very little effort for the user
Almost all the data is passively collected
e.g. FitBit/smartphone accelerometer,
Lark/sleep sensor, GPS, calendar
- App constantly learns i.e. is personalized
Results are gotten easily through the
user pushing a button
11. Contact me
Let me know what you think!
Email me: cglu@stanford.edu
I'm currently in my junior year at
Stanford University majoring in
Computer Science. I'm interested
in health technology and how
people create healthy behaviors
for themselves.