Smart Cues Toolkit: Supporting Physical Activity at Home with Interactive Contextual Cues

智能提示工具包：通过交互式上下文提示支持家庭体育活动

• 批准号: EP/X036766/1
• 负责人: Katarzyna Stawarz
• 金额: $ 79.87万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX036766%2F1
• 关键词: Smart; Cues; Toolkit; Supporting; Physical

Physical activity is a miracle drug: even a small amount of activity has a positive impact on our health and wellbeing. However, finding time to exercise is difficult, especially if we have other things to do every day. One solution is adding movement to our everyday routine and moving a bit more when we do other things, e.g., standing on one leg when brushing your teeth to work on our balance. Behaviours like that help to add more activity into our day without extra effort or having to find time - but we still have to remember to do it, which is not easy. But what if we did not have to remember?Habits could help. Habitual behaviours are automatic and do not require conscious remembering. However, as anyone who has ever tried to start a new habit knows, it can be difficult - especially if that habit involves physical activity. Habits form when the behaviour is consistently repeated in the same environment: in the same place, in the presence of the same objects, etc. It is the environment and contextual cues that with time start to prompt the behaviour so that it happens automatically. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies could help us control such contextual cues and create our own 'smart cues' that are tailored to our routines and the behaviours we want to turn into habits. So far IoT has been used in home settings to help control the environment (e.g. controlling lights) and provide health monitoring (e.g. fall detection), but as IoT technologies often become part of the home environment - and habits depend on the environment to form - they could be used to facilitate and support habit formation. While there has been limited research on the use of IoT to support behaviour change, no work has focused on supporting habits, even though long-term change in behaviour depends on the formation of habits to ensure that the new behaviour continues. We want to address this gap. This project aims to apply habit formation research to the development of IoT systems ('smart cues') that could support the formation of exercise habits at home. We will develop a Smart Cues Toolkit that will include: a set of interaction techniques, design patterns, recommended materials and form factors for smart cues; a set of validated prototypes; and case studies showcasing implementation challenges and solutions. The toolkit will provide guidance on developing home IoT systems for supporting physical activity habits that can be used by researchers to help inform behaviour change interventions. The development of the toolkit will depend on an in-depth understanding of users' needs, attitudes, and expectations, as well as identifying how smart cues could best fit into people's homes. As a result, the toolkit will also benefit other types of behaviour change interventions that rely on the formation of new habits, e.g. home-based rehabilitation or supporting sustainable behaviours.

体育活动是一种奇迹药物：即使少量活动也会对我们的健康和福祉产生积极影响。但是，很难找到锻炼的时间，尤其是如果我们每天还有其他事情要做。一种解决方案是在我们的日常工作中增加运动，并在做其他事情时移动更多，例如，在刷牙时站在一条腿上以保持平衡。这样的行为有助于在我们的一天中增加更多的活动，而无需付出额外的努力或不必花时间 - 但我们仍然必须记住要这样做，这并不容易。但是，如果我们不必记住怎么办？习惯可以帮助您。习惯行为是自动的，不需要有意识的记忆。但是，正如任何曾经尝试养成新习惯的人都知道的那样，这可能很困难 - 特别是如果这种习惯涉及体育锻炼。当行为在同一环境中始终如一地重复时，习惯形成：在同一位置，存在相同对象等。正是环境和上下文提示随着时间的流逝开始提示行为，以便自动发生这种行为。物联网（IoT）技术可以帮助我们控制这种上下文提示，并创建自己的“智能提示”，这些线索是根据我们的日常工作和想要变成习惯的行为量身定制的。到目前为止，物联网已在家庭环境中用于帮助控制环境（例如控制灯）并提供健康监测（例如秋季检测），但是随着物联网技术通常成为家庭环境的一部分 - 习惯依赖于环境形成 - 它们可用于促进和支持习惯形成。尽管关于使用物联网支持行为改变的研究有限，但没有工作重点是支持习惯，尽管行为的长期变化取决于习惯的形成，以确保新行为继续存在。我们想解决这个差距。该项目旨在将习惯形成研究应用于可以支持在家中运动习惯形成的物联网系统（“智能提示”）的开发。我们将开发一个智能提示工具包，其中包括：一组互动技术，设计模式，推荐的材料和智能提示的形式；一组经过验证的原型；案例研究表明实施挑战和解决方案。该工具包将为开发家庭IoT系统提供指导，以支持研究人员可以使用的体育活动习惯来帮助行为改变干预措施。该工具包的开发将取决于对用户需求，态度和期望的深入了解，并确定智能提示如何最好地适应人们的房屋。结果，该工具包还将受益其他类型的行为改变干预措施，这些干预措施取决于新习惯的形成，例如以家庭为基础的康复或支持可持续行为。