Gamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study

dc.contributor.authorKappen, Dennis
dc.contributor.authorMirza-Babaei, Pejman
dc.contributor.authorNacke, Lennart
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-28T00:45:53Z
dc.date.available2017-12-28T00:45:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-03
dc.description.abstractDesigning fitness programs to combat a sedentary lifestyle and foster older adults’ motivation and goal-setting is not yet well-understood beyond point-based systems. To improve older adults’ (over 50 years) health and wellness, we studied a gamified physical activity intervention over eight weeks in an experiment (N=30) with three conditions (gamified, non-gamified, control). Our qualitative analysis showed the gamified group exhibited more engagement and interest in performing physical activity facilitated by technology. Results from our quantitative analysis indicated significance in the perceived competence dimension compared to the non-gamified and the control group. Perceived autonomy was significant for the non-gamified group against the control group. The findings from qualitative and quantitative analysis show motivation, enjoyment, and engagement were higher in the gam-ified group. This provides support for successfully facilitating older adults’ physical activity through gamified technology, which helped us create guide-lines for older adults’ adaptive engagement.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2018.149
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-1-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/50036
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectGamification
dc.subjectgamification, motivation, motivational affordances, physical activity, user experience design
dc.titleGamification of Older Adults’ Physical Activity: An Eight-Week Study
dc.typeConference Paper
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