Understanding the design of a flying jogging companion

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller; Matthew Muirhead

doi:10.1145/2658779.2658786

Understanding the design of a flying jogging companion

Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Matthew Muirhead

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Abstract

Jogging can offer many health benefits, and mobile phone apps have recently emerged that aim to support the jogging experience. We believe that jogging is an embodied experience, and therefore present a contrasting approach to these existing systems by arguing that any supporting technology should also take on an embodied approach. In order to exemplify this approach, we detail the technical specifications of a flying quadcopter that has successfully been used with joggers in order to explore the design of embodied systems to support physical exertion activities. Based on interviews with five joggers running with our system, we present preliminary insights about the experience of jogging with a flying robot. With our work, we hope to inspire and guide designers who are interested in developing embodied systems to support exertion activities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST'14 - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Editors	Mira Dontcheva, Daniel Wigdor
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	81-82
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330688
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2658779.2658786
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2014 - Honolulu, United States of America Duration: 5 Oct 2014 → 8 Oct 2014 Conference number: 27th https://uist.acm.org/uist2014/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2642918 (Main Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2658779 (Adjunct Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2014
Abbreviated title	UIST 2014
Country	United States of America
City	Honolulu
Period	5/10/14 → 8/10/14
Internet address	https://uist.acm.org/uist2014/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2642918 (Main Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2658779 (Adjunct Proceedings)

Keywords

Drone
Exergames
Exertion
Jogging
Multirotor
Quadcopter
Robot
Running
Sports
Whole-body interaction

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10.1145/2658779.2658786

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Mueller, FF & Muirhead, M 2014, Understanding the design of a flying jogging companion. in M Dontcheva & D Wigdor (eds), UIST'14 - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 81-82, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2014, Honolulu, United States of America, 5/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2658779.2658786

Understanding the design of a flying jogging companion. / Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'; Muirhead, Matthew.

UIST'14 - Adjunct Publication of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ed. / Mira Dontcheva; Daniel Wigdor. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 81-82.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other

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