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HappyFeet! influencing at the turning points: walking or scooter ride for short-distance journey?

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Modern transportation has changed our lifestyle and allowed for many more options for the daily commute. Particularly in Taiwan, a unique regional phenomenon is that people tend to travel to almost anywhere by scooter. With the intention of replacing the scooter ride for short-distance journeys with walking, we introduce a system called "HappyFeet", which encourages users to walk more with various interactive ways. The user testing demonstrated that the users were enthusiastic about our design and they provided positive feedback as well as some comments for ways to improve.

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      MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
      September 2010
      552 pages
      ISBN:9781605588353
      DOI:10.1145/1851600
      • General Chairs:
      • Marco de Sá,
      • Luís Carriço,
      • Program Chair:
      • Nuno Correia

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      Published: 07 September 2010

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      1. short-distance journey
      2. turning point
      3. user experience
      4. user-centered design
      5. walk

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