Health Empowerment through Fitness Trackers
Exercise "Fake Out"
OUR GOAL
To improve user’s experience on health using our solution.
MILESTONE
Our primary goal is to improve the health of college students who have failed at fitness before but still want to improve their health.
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Investigate
Frame Issues related to fitness trackers including body data tracking, mental models, and behavior change.
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Data Collection
Conduct interviews with relevant stakeholders (college students).
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Lo-Fi & Mid-Fi Prototypes
Creatively generate ideas and prototypes on low-fidelity and mid-fidelity materials.
04
Evaluate
Evaluating and analyzing our solution with both empirical and analytical methods.
INVESTIGATION
Our secondary research underscores the complexity of adopting fitness trackers and health apps, revealing their varied impacts on behavior and well-being. While these tools offer diverse functions and can positively influence attitudes toward exercise, their accuracy and potential to induce health worry necessitate caution. Mental models greatly influence engagement with tracking, affecting users' habits and mental health. Personalized guidance, social support, and user-friendly interfaces are key for effective behavior change, yet obstacles such as unclear interfaces and impractical goals impede progress. Understanding these dynamics is essential for harnessing the full potential of health apps and body data tracking for holistic well-being.
DATA COLLECTION
We collected data by sending surveys with Google Forms, directly speaking with the interviewee, and conducting actual interviews. These methods helped us gain insights into the ideation process and expand our perspectives by understanding the user.
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Google Survey form response for effectiveness on fitness trackers from user's perspective
Google Survey form response for insights that fitness tracker provides from user's perspective
After collecting data through surveys and interviews, we created an affinity diagram to organize data and to find similarities.
We arranged the most mentioned user preferences of fitness trackers on an affinity diagram from an interview, and they were: Notifying and Tracking.
AFFINITY DIAGRAM
LOW-FIDELITY
PROTOTYPES
As a team, each member sketched out a basic prototype, leveraging insights gained from data collection. Subsequently, we evaluated these prototypes and integrated user-friendly elements to create a cohesive mid-fidelity prototype for further advancement.
Lo-Fi initial sketches
Lo-Fi prototype
MID-FIDELITY
PROTOTYPES
Our team developed low-fidelity sketches and prototypes and then iteratively prototyped based on evaluating lo-fi materials. We have further developed mid-fidelity prototype through Figma and created a mockup for fitness app that tracks only steps for college students who experienced failure regarding fitness related issues previously but trying to overcome and willing to improve their physical health.
