Experiences from a Long Run with a Virtual Personal Trainer

نویسندگان

  • Paolo Pilloni
  • Lucio Davide Spano
  • Fabrizio Mulas
  • Gianni Fenu
  • Salvatore Carta
چکیده

In this paper, we report on our two-years experience with the commercial application Everywhere Run!, a mobile app that allows people to self monitor their running sessions and stay motivated in pursuing a wellbeing life-style. We consider a time interval of two-years, taking as breakpoint the first release of the application that improved the Virtual Personal Trainer presentation. The quantitative data we report comes from a remote logging of the app usage, while the qualitative data comes from the application reviews on the Google Play Store.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014