Project Direction

In response to the brief for this project I set myself the proposal of ‘How can we engage students at the University of Lincoln on exercise and encourage them to participate in it’. From carrying out a variety of primary and secondary research I have decided that the solution to my proposal will the form of a mobile app. 

An overview of the app:

• An individual will input their numerical body data, allowing the app to create an accurate 3D model of them
• Whenever the individual input’s the exercise they have done, the app uses this information to highlight area’s of the body that have been impacted
• The user can tap on these highlighted area’s to learn more specifically of the long term/short term benefits that the exercise has had
• Data is tracked, stored and users can see how their model has changed over time
• Users can save their own customised workouts to save them typing data out each time – the app also automatically downloads data that phones track e.g. step count

Why I think this is an effective response:

I believe this is an effective response as my primary research showed that the root cause of students not participating in exercise is lack of motivation. I think by being able to physically see the areas of the body being impacted by exercise and having the ability to see the subtle immediate effects as well as long term effects is going to provide that motivation. Students will be able to see that exercise is helping them, and meanwhile they are educating themselves in an engaging and personal way as they learn how exercise helps the body. I also think by taking an app-based approach it will easily become incorporated into their daily lives and also comes across as an audience-related approach to teaching as opposed to be seen as a condensing way of educating them.

Rough sketch up:

What I will do next: I will be continuing to fully develop my app concept, alongside this I will be looking at crowdfunding paged in order to give me some inspiration for my own crowdfunding page that I will be creating on adobe spark. I will post my research on this topic in the next blog post.