Changing Your Tune: Lessons for Using Music to Encourage Physical Activity

IF 4.3 3区材料科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

ACS Applied Electronic Materials Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.1145/3659611

Matthew Clark, Afsaneh Doryab

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Abstract

Our research investigated whether music can communicate physical activity levels in daily life. Past studies have shown that simple musical tunes can provide wellness information, but no study has examined whether musical feedback can affect daily behavior or lead to healthier habits. We conducted a within-subject study with 62 participants over a period of 76 days, providing either musical or text-based feedback on their daily physical activity. The music was built and personalized based on participants' step counts and baseline wellness perceptions. Results showed that participants were marginally more active during the music feedback compared to their baseline period, and significantly more active compared to the text-based feedback (p = 0.000). We also find that the participant's average activity may influence the musical features they find most inspiration within a song. Finally, context influenced how musical feedback was interpreted, and specific musical features correlated with higher activity levels regardless of baseline perceptions. We discuss lessons learned for designing music-based feedback systems for health communication.

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改变你的旋律利用音乐鼓励体育锻炼的经验教训

我们的研究调查了音乐能否传达日常生活中的体育锻炼水平。过去的研究表明，简单的音乐曲调可以提供健康信息，但还没有研究探讨音乐反馈是否会影响日常行为或导致更健康的生活习惯。我们对 62 名参与者进行了为期 76 天的受试者内研究，为他们的日常体育锻炼提供音乐或文字反馈。音乐是根据参与者的步数和对健康的基本看法制作和个性化的。结果显示，与基线期相比，参与者在音乐反馈期间的活动量略有增加，而与文字反馈相比，活动量明显增加（p = 0.000）。我们还发现，参与者的平均活动量可能会影响他们认为歌曲中最能激发灵感的音乐特征。最后，情境影响了音乐反馈的解读方式，无论基线认知如何，特定的音乐特征都与较高的活动水平相关。我们讨论了为健康交流设计基于音乐的反馈系统的经验教训。

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ACS Applied Electronic Materials Multiple-

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

567

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