Measuring, monitoring, motivating fitness

submission deadline for position papers June 17, 2005 (submission deadline has passed)
acceptance notification for position papers July 25, 2005 (acceptances have been sent)

W10 Monitoring, measuring and motivating exercise: ubiquitous computing to support fitness
Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating patterns are responsible for a worldwide epidemic of preventable illnesses and deaths. This workshop addresses the role of ubiquitous computing in promoting physical activity. Discussion topics include: engineering mobile and wearable devices for physically active people, culturally dependent definitions of fitness and activity, why and how we design motivational interfaces, sensors and other technologies that monitor and assess physical activity, as well as the legal and ethical concerns raised by potentially combining persuasive computing and biometric monitoring. The workshop will result in an online annotated bibliography and recommendations for promising technologies, platforms, and design approaches.

call for participation
We welcome contributions from computer scientists, designers, social scientists and others who are already working on or are interested in developing solutions to help people improve their physical fitness. We imagine that this workshop will be relevant to practitioners thinking about or working on:

Wearable and/or mobile computing
Industrial design
Biometrics
Activity sensing
Mobile games and entertainment
Motivational or persuasive interfaces
Fitness & nutrition
Social issues surrounding privacy and personal information management

Submissions should be 2-4 pages in ACM format and include:

A brief definition of fitness in the context of human activity
A discussion of the critical technical and social issues at play in promoting physical activity through pervasive technologies
A discussion of background, interests, current work and motivation for participating in this workshop.

We expect ten to twenty people to attend the workshop. Acceptance will be based on relevance to the subject and originality demonstrated through position papers. Prior work will be considered, but we encourage submissions to use the workshop format as a forum for new or experimental concepts.

organizers
Elizabeth Goodman,
  Intel User Centered Design
Brooke Foucault,
  Intel User Centered Design
Sunny Consolvo,
  Intel Research Seattle

attendees
Louise Barkhuus
  paper
AJ Brush & Brian Meyers
  paper not available online
Ed H. Chi
  paper
Bill Rogers
  paper
Nicholas Graham
  paper
Ian A.R. Li
  paper
Lauritz Lipp
  paper
Marya Chan, Drew Spieth & Josh Kaplan
  paper
Cory D. Kidd
  paper
Stephen Intille
  paper
Ana C. Andres del Valle
  paper
Kari Laurila
  paper
Gunnar Stevens & Volker Wulf
  paper
Jonathan Lester
  paper
Mary Barbour
  paper

Submissions are now officially closed. W10 position papers are not official UbiComp '05 publications.

Please send all questions to Elizabeth Goodman: elizabeth.s.goodman AT intel.com