Designing a Music-controlled Running Application: a Sports Science and Psychological Perspective

Christine Bauer, Anna Kratschmar

Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceedingContribution to conference proceedings

Abstract

Music has long been acknowledged for its effects on participants in sports and exercise. For casual runners music may act as a motivator and distractor of physical strain. It may also serve as a training guide, when sensing technology is used as an enabler for adapting music to a runner's situation in real-time. While many effects of music are known from sports science and psychology, application designers lack a consolidated knowledge base that guides them in designing a running application. This work synthesizes findings from the involved disciplines and provides 7 requirements for an application that increases casual runners' motivation and controls training.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2015)
EditorsBo Begole, Jinwoo Kim
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherACM Press
Pages1379 - 1384
ISBN (Print)9781450331463
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2015

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 102013 Human-computer interaction

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