PRE2023 3 Group8

Members

Name	ID	Department
Geert Boer	1894803	Biomedical Engineering
Roel Domensino	1758896	Automotive Technology
Daan Kuijpers	1892800	Biomedical Engineering
Louise Rietra	1859269	Industrial Engineering
Chris Smeets	1845403	Biomedical Engineering
Thijn van Veggel	1732358	Psychology & Technology

Plan Week 1:

subject

• Apps that help motivate youth to exercise

objective

• Creating a healthier youth by having them exercise more

Who are the users?

• Youth (16-25)
• Motivate to go to the gym  

What do they require?

• They need motivation to exercise
• Reward system
• Guidance for exercise

Approach, milestones, and deliverables

• Research motivational techniques (for exercising)
• Questionnaire about what motivations works for people
• Brainstorm about reward system and avatars
• Create an app layout

• Connect a fitness database
• Classification of goals
• Questionnaire at the end

Who will do what:

Members:	Main Task(s):
Geert Boer	App development
Roel Domensino	App development, Motivation
Daan Kuijpers	App development
Louise Rietra	Motivation, questionaries
Chris Smeets	App development/design, physiology
Thijn van Veggel	App design, Motivation

Planning:

Monday   5   February	Tuesday 6 February	Wednesday 7 February	Thursday 8 February	Friday 9 February	Saturday 10 February	Sunday 11 February
Lecture & meeting			Send E-mail & meeting
Monday 12   February	Tuesday 13 February	Wednesday 14 February	Thursday 15 February	Friday 16 February	Saturday 17 February	Sunday 18 February
Vacation	Vacation	Vacation	Vacation	Vacation		Update Wiki
Monday 19 February	Tuesday 20 February	Wednesday 21 February	Thursday 22 February	Friday 23 February	Saturday 24 February	Sunday 25 February
Meeting			Meeting	Finish the questionnaire		Update Wiki
Monday   26 February	Tuesday 27 February	Wednesday 28 February	Thursday 29 February	Friday 1 March	Saturday 2 March	Sunday   3 March
Meeting			Meeting			Update Wiki
Monday 4 March	Tuesday 5 March	Wednesday 6 March	Thursday 7 March	Friday 8 March	Saturday 9 March	Sunday 10 March
Meeting			Meeting	Finish motivation & Gui research		Update Wiki
Monday   11 March	Tuesday 12 March	Wednesday 13 March	Thursday 14 March	Friday 15 March	Saturday 16 March	Sunday 17 March
Meeting			Meeting	Finish exercise program		Update Wiki
Monday   18 March	Tuesday 19 March	Wednesday 20 March	Thursday 21 March	Friday 22 March	Saturday 23 March	Sunday 24 March
Meeting		App is finished & start last questionnaire	Meeting			Update Wiki
Monday 25 March	Tuesday 26 March	Wednesday 27 March	Thursday 28 March	Friday 29 March	Saturday 30 March	Sunday 31 March
Meeting			Meeting	Finished with final report		Update Wiki
Monday   1 April	Tuesday 2 April	Wednesday 3 April	Thursday 4 April	Friday 5 April	Saturday 6 April	Sunday 7 April
Free			Final presentation

Sources:

Louise:  

Link:	Content:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-011-9157-z	This article is mostly about motivation among students. It does not touch on exercise, but it does discuss that not only the goals of the students are important, but also whether the goals are reached.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1123/rsj.2017-0026	This article is about motivation to exercise among students. It looks at extrinsic motivation to exercise. This could help with the development of our app because this would also be an extrinsic motivator.
https://www.amjhealthstudies.com/index.php/ajhs/article/view/57	This article looked at the barriers that students face when wanting to exercise.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07448481.2010.513074	In this article, they looked at how race, gender, and age affected motivation to exercise.
https://hubermanlab.com/newsletter/tools-to-manage-dopamine-and-improve-motivation-and-drive	This article looked more into the neuroscience side of motivation. It looks into how dopamine affects motivation.

Roel:

Link:	Content:
Full article: Leveling Up Your Game: The Use of Video Games as a Therapeutic Modality (tandfonline.com)	This article introduces and begins to explore the use of video game technology in a therapeutic setting, providing context, rationale, and an introduction to the culture of video game players.
The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications - Google Boeken	This article talks about the approach, issues and applications of creating a game-like world.
Health promotion: The impact of beliefs of health benefits, social relations and enjoyment on exercise continuation - Nielsen - 2014 - Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library	This article explores how and why participants in structured exercise intervention programs continue or stop exercising after the program is finished
Health impact of sport and exercise in emerging adult men: a prospective study | Quality of Life Research (springer.com)	This article talks about the impact of sport and exercise on young men
Full article: Promoting habit formation (tandfonline.com)	This article talks about how to give developers the tools to help establish target behaviors as habits.
The Effects of Cooperation and Competition on Intrinsic Motivation and Performance. (apa.org)	This article investigates the effect of cooperation and competition on intrinsic motivation and performance, and the difference between the two effects.

Daan:

Link:	Content:
Thehowandwhyoffitnessappuseinvestigatingusermotivationstogaininsightsintothenexusoftechnologyandfitness.pdf	The article discusses fitness tracking apps and how they promote fitness activity. It further discusses motivation and provides potential improvements in terms of motivation for fitness apps.
Motivation and timing: Clues formodeling the reward system - ScienceDirect	This article discusses how our neurological reward system works and its connection with motivation.
CanMobileAppsMotivateFitnessTrackingAStudyofTechnologicalAffordancesandWorkoutBehaviors.pdf	The study investigated the impact of features in a workout app on exercise outcomes and goal attainment for 682 users, finding that elements promoting relatedness, autonomy, and competence positively predicted results.
Workout Motivation Through Technology-Mediated Training (jackyfwong.com)	Short article that discusses how technology could help with workout motivation and how it could improve workout outcomes.
Full article: Sport and fitness app uses: a review of humanities and social science perspectives (tandfonline.com)	This study looks at sociological interpretations addressing several factors and potential positive and negative effects of such apps.
Sports App User Behavior Analysis: Participation Motivation, Satisfaction, and Loyalty (hindawi.com)	Part of the article is about how sports app users are motivated and what effects this has.
MolinaandSundarChapterinHealthTheoryBook.pdf	A book that looks at how media can affect a person's health along with motivation.

Chris:

Link:	Content:
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85162186527&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&sot=b&sdt=b&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%28%22mobile+exercise%22%29&sl=31&sessionSearchId=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&relpos=1
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85168993626&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&sot=b&sdt=b&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%28%22exercise+apps%22%29&sl=31&sessionSearchId=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&relpos=16
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10410236.2018.1536961
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85174183820&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&sot=b&sdt=b&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%28%22exercise+application%22%29&sl=31&sessionSearchId=0958581a1dcf5e74db849ef0873317bb&relpos=8
https://mhealth.jmir.org/2016/2/e62	This is an article that shows that usage of a tracking app greatly enhances the frequency of exercise.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1090198112452126	This article shows research about the lack of a proper exercise app, mostly hinting at a lack of proper theory inclusion

Thijn:

Link:	Content:
Motivation in sport settings: A goal perspective approach. (apa.org) Handbook of Competence and Motivation, First Edition - Google Boeken	The first link is the APA of the book from the second link. It is about a book which adopted a goal-focused approach to the study of motivation in sport. It focusses on three major issues, namely the relationship between goal perspectives and cognitive mediators of motivation, intrinsic interest and the correspondence between goal perspectives and the broader concept of values in the sport domain.
An integrative analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in sport (tandfonline.com)	The purpose of this paper is to propose a motivational sequence that integrates much of the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation literature in sport.
Motivation-in-sport-from-a-collective-efficacy-perspective.pdf (researchgate.net)	This article is about group motivation. So, it focusses on the motivation in team sports.
Toward a Developmental Theory of Children's Motivation in Sport in: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology Volume 9 Issue 2 (1987) (humankinetics.com)	This article is about motivation in sport for children. It mainly focusses on the achievement motivation.
Achievement motive and sport participation - ScienceDirect	The article is about three studies which investigated the relationship between the achievement motive and sport participation. It looks at implicit and explicit motivation.
College Students' Motivation for Physical Activity: Differentiating Men's and Women's Motives for Sport Participation and Exercise: Journal of American College Health: Vol 54, No 2 (tandfonline.com)	This article is about a study in which the authors compare motivations for sport participation versus exercise among college students.

Geert:

Link:	Content:
https://mhealth.jmir.org/2016/2/e39	This article is about how effective mobile apps are when it comes to promoting a healthy lifestyle among adolescents and students. It is literature study combining 15 other studies.
https://mhealth.jmir.org/2019/7/e11926/	This article analyzes 2000 apps in order to determine which one is most effective in causing a behavioral change.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atreyi-Kankanhalli/publication/309557443_Gamification_in_Fitness_Apps_How_do_Leaderboards_influence_Exercise/links/586ca96f08ae8fce4919f096/Gamification-in-Fitness-Apps-How-do-Leaderboards-influence-Exercise.pdf	This study analyzes the gamification of fitness apps. And focuses specifically on whether a competitive leaderboard is boosting motivation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1441352318302225	This article compares a more social app where you can chat with each other to a gamified app which is oriented towards fun to motivate. As it turns out according to this social is more effective.
https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/13/8/103	This article goes into the negative and positive effects of gamefication on the health and fitness industry.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0890117118790394?casa_token=gUEjY5q6tKMAAAAA%3A0tsZvqCuPEhC7PdCKiVxakcIeBEHxZs8hN2MpnnaKe9WiGclpEZWG2KQqt-P9ul-8Nc8-L1cdqM	This article analyzes different game aspects of gamification and analyzes each effectiveness.

Log:

Week 1	Total hours	Tasks done (incl. hours per task)
Geert Boer	4.5h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h), finding literature (1h)
Roel Domensino	7h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h), finding literature (1h), second meeting (1.5h), research (1h)
Daan Kuijpers	4.5h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h), finding literature (1h),
Louise Rietra	4.5h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h), finding literature (1h)
Chris Smeets	5h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h) finding literature (1.5h)
Thijn van Veggel	5h	Lecture and meeting (3.5h), finding literature (1.5h)
Week 2	Total hours	Tasks done (incl. hours per task)
Geert Boer
Roel Domensino
Daan Kuijpers
Louise Rietra
Chris Smeets
Thijn van Veggel