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ZAPT Personalized Workout Coach. Akshaya Venkat Michael Zhou Tom Lehmann Brenna Smith. Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis. Overall Problem and Solution . Lack of information about exercise prevents people from having and implementing fitness goals. Trouble finding the information.
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ZAPTPersonalized Workout Coach Akshaya Venkat Michael Zhou Tom Lehmann Brenna Smith Contextual Inquiry and Task Analysis.
Overall Problem and Solution • Lack of information about exercise prevents people from having and implementing fitness goals. • Trouble finding the information. • ZAPT aims to provide personalized workout plans that fit the users schedule, body type, and exercise goals.
Contextual Inquiry • 4 people (Different ages and different fitness goals. • Age, technology proficiency, physical mobility and time and money constraints. • Hitting a plateau while trying to achieve their goals. • Didn’t know how to start exercising or had started but wanted a more personalized plan. • Gym setting
Task Analysis Part 1: • primary users will smartphone users • Biggest constraints were time and money. • Most participants knew exact goal but didn't’t know of target-specific exercises. • Scheduling aspects were highly sought after and requested. • Tools to critique form and fix it if necessary. • Both outdoor and Indoor workouts.
Task Analysis Part 2: • Workouts that didn’t work with one’s lifestyle. (Too long, lack of equipment/gear) • Large gap between the large amounts of data the users are finding, and the data that the users need to develop a successful workout plan. • Older generation: usually found workouts through magazines or books • Younger generation: usually found workouts though mobile applications, internet, social media and YouTube.
Task Analysis Part 3: • Social communication is key within target customers • Motivation • Face to face support • Scheduling purposes • Sharing via social media • interviewees felt that the majority of their time effort was wasted on organizational tasks. • Finding a workout, learning the exercises, and completing the workout. • Health restrictions and frustrations to be minimized
Representative Task Part 1: • Getting a personalized workout (simple, high importance, high frequency): • Customers could easily express what they wanted and the constraints they had. • Users want to be able to quickly specify what they need and get a personalized workout. • Done frequently by users (needs to be accessed quickly and easily)
Representative Task Part 2: • Scheduling workouts (complex, moderate important, low frequency): • A significant barrier to working out. • Users want a work out that will fit their schedule, allows time for recovery and work out with friends. • Having to play workout times that were suitable for both themselves and their friends was reported as being difficult
Representative Task Part 3: • Learning how to do exercises (moderate, high importance, moderate frequency) • Most mentioned/frustrating aspect of workout and achieving goals. • Often felt they were doing exercises wrong or that they were ineffective. • Needs an option to explicitly see how a workout is done, and want feed back on their own form.
Summary • Main idea: Creating an app that produces a personalize workout schedule and plan for individuals. • Taking into consideration time/money/facility constraints. • Easy and effective scheduling feature for motivational and group exercise purposes. • Proper guidance of all exercises for user.
