Previewing Your Future Self
A few months ago, I highlighted a treadmill at Japanese gyms that flashes pictures of desserts at exercisers as they hit certain calorie counts in order to keep them motivated. Want that milkshake? Just run another half hour.
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A Different Kind of Health Preview
At the Institute, we've spent a fair amount of time thinking about how visualization tools can help encourage people to improve their health by helping people see the visceral effects of eating, exercise and other behaviors. Now from Japan comes word of a different kind of health preview to motivate people to exercise: Encourage people to exercise by embedding images of desserts and other tempting foods into the console of a treadmill.
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Healthy Avatars, Healthy Living
A preliminary study from RTI has found that Virtual World users with thin, active avatars are significantly more likely to be active and healthy in the physical world. Specifically, while 80 percent of Second Life users whose avatars participate in vigorous exercise also say they exercise in the physical world at least once a week, only 57 percent of users whose avatars do not exercise in the virtual world report exercising in the physical world.
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