New article: Movement Correction in Instructed Fitness Training: Design Recommendations and Opportunities
In June 2018, Laia Turmo Vidal, Elena Márquez Segura and Annika Waern’s article, “Movement Correction in Instructed Fitness Training: Design Recommendations and Opportunities”, has been published in Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’18).
Abstract
The use of technology to assist in instructed fitness training in collocated social settings is underexplored. Here the researchers focus on how technology can be designed to fit within, leverage, and be part of the strategies and tools that fitness trainees and instructors use to detect and correct performance errors. Drawing on ethnomethodological approaches and using the concept of correction to focus the analysis, the researchers scrutinize the interaction between instructor and trainees in two fitness activities, AntiGravity Fitness and Pilates.
The researchers identify social configurations and resources employed in instances of correction. They also present an analytical tool useful for deconstructing such correction processes, highlighting the strategies and resources used by the social actors, and their impact on performance. Based on insights gained from our analyses, the researchers propose design recommendations and identify design opportunities that capitalize on existing tools and collaborative correction strategies, such as scaffolding the correction process.
Movement Correction in Instructed Fitness Training: Design Recommendations and Opportunities
Laia Turmo Vidal is a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.
Elena Márquez Segura is a researcher at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.
Annika Waern is professor in human computer interaction at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.