Adrienne Woodworth: Combating Obesity Trends in Teenagers Through Persuasive Mobile Technology
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Yes We Can: Combating Obesity Trends in Teenagers Through Persuasive Mobile Technology
Adrienne Woodworth is a senior CS major at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Adrienne worked in the HCI lab under Sri Kurniawan. She helped create an iPhone application called Teenvity, designed to motivate teenagers to exercise by playing gps and accelerometer-based iPhone games. This required her to quickly familiarize herself with the Objective C language and Cocoa programming.
Teenvity is different from other fitness applications in that it is customized to the userÕs personality. The user creates a profile by taking a short test, and their results determine an agent selection and a list of games for the user to play. AdrienneÕs work focused on implementing the personality test and scoring, as well as creating embodied virtual agents that say motivational phrases to cater to different personalities.