An exploration of social requirements for exercise group formation

Authors:
Mike Wu;Abhishek Ranjan;Khai N. Truong
Affiliations:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Exercising is often a social activity performed with other people, yet finding compatible exercise partners is difficult in practice. To gain a better understanding of the social requirements involved with forming exercise groups, we conducted a two-phased exploratory study involving an online web questionnaire with 96 respondents and two focus groups. Our results highlight various aspects of collaborating with exercise partners, but also indicate the limited utility of currently available systems to support such collaborations. We discuss implications for collaborative technologies supporting exercise group formation.