Investigated the wearing of a small light emitting, shoe-mounted prototype display to motivate physical activity. It provides a light to the public to leverage real-time, physical social influence to motivate people.
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Publication
This work was presented at the CHI 2007 workshop on Ambient Persuasion.
Award
We submitted this project to Mindtrek, the Nokia Ubimedia Award 2009 and received an honourable mention.
I’ve recently (16 Jan 2010) noticed some advertisements for a range of commercial products by Sketchers called Luminators that uses a similar design and concept:
Luminators: Nollies – Meterorite