KidLED: A Colorful Approach to Children's Activity Awareness

Ankita Samariya, Anud Sharma, Margiawan Fitriani, Tucker Ferguson, Jerry Alan Fails

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Abstract

Obesity in children is a growing cause of concern as it affects more than 18% of children in the United States. Sedentary behaviour is one of the contributors to childhood obesity. Technological interventions like activity trackers and fitness games have been introduced to motivate both children and adults to be physically active. Most of these technologies encourage activity by making them aware of their activity levels. While awareness of current activity levels may help motivating adults, it can be difficult for children to understand their activity levels in terms of number of steps (the most common method used by adults). Instead children should be made aware of their activity levels via simpler and easier to understand technology. Within this context, we present KidLED - an LED activity display that represents user’s activity via a simple color display rather than numbers - designed to simplify activity tracking for children.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationIDC '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

  • active games
  • activity minutes
  • social
  • temporal

EGS Disciplines

  • Child Psychology
  • Computer Sciences
  • Health Psychology

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