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Title: | WalkWithMe: Personalized goal setting and coaching for walking in people with Multiple Sclerosis | Authors: | GEURTS, Eva VAN GEEL, Fanny FEYS, Peter CONINX, Karin |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | ACM | Source: | Proceedings of The 27th ACM Conference On User Modelling, Adaptation And Personalization, ACM,p. 51-60 | Abstract: | People with Multiple Sclerosis (pwMS) suffer from a diverse set of symptoms such as fatigue, pain, depression, and decline in motor and cognitive function. It has been proven that physical activity has a positive effect on most of these symptoms. However, many pwMS lead sedentary lives, and do not meet the guidelines for physical activity. We propose WalkWithMe, a mobile application that supports pwMS in walking. WalkWithMe coaches pwMS in achieving a personal goal over a period of 10 weeks. We conducted a workshop with pwMS and brainstorm sessions with experts in rehabilitation to define the design choices of WalkWithMe. We examined the impact of WalkWithMe in a 10-week field study with 13 pwMS. The study revealed insights in walking habits, and positive trends in walking capacity. In this paper, we present the design aspects of WalkWithMe, findings of our 10-week evaluation, and resulting insights on goal setting for pwMS. | Notes: | Geurts, E (reprint author), Hasselt Univ tUL, Expertise Ctr Digital Media, Diepenbeek, Belgium. eva.geurts@uhasselt.be; fanny.vangeel@uhasselt.be; peter.feys@uhasselt.be; karin.coninx@uhasselt.be | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/28528 | ISBN: | 9781450360210 | DOI: | 10.1145/3320435.3320459 | ISI #: | 000482185300010 | Rights: | Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. | Category: | C1 | Type: | Proceedings Paper | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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