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An exploration of social requirements for exercise group formation

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Mike Wu,

Abhishek Ranjan,

Khai N. TruongAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '09: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518714

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Exercising is often a social activity performed with other people, yet finding compatible exercise partners is difficult in practice. To gain a better understanding of the social requirements involved with forming exercise groups, we conducted a two-phased exploratory study involving an online web questionnaire with 96 respondents and two focus groups. Our results highlight various aspects of collaborating with exercise partners, but also indicate the limited utility of currently available systems to support such collaborations. We discuss implications for collaborative technologies supporting exercise group formation.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2415108
Kanstrup ABertelsen P(2016)Bringing new voices to design of exercise technologyProceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Full papers - Volume 110.1145/2940299.2940305(121-130)Online publication date: 15-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2940299.2940305
Settles BDow SMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)Let's get togetherProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2470654.2466266(2009-2018)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
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CHI '09: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2009

2426 pages

ISBN:9781605582467

DOI:10.1145/1518701

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University of Calgary

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