Mutiv: Music-based Mobile Application to Support Joggers

Regular jogging help people maintain their health. However, it is burdensome to keep working out without clear motivation. Although mobile applications has been developed to overcome the challenge, little is known about the guildelines for designing mobile applications that address the needs and barriers of joggers. In this study, we identified joggers' needs and barriers and used them to produce ten principles for designing mobile applications. We then created Mutiv, a web-based prototype of the mobile application based on the principles and evaluated the satisfaction of the joggers of the prototype.

I. Introducttion

Although regular exercise (e.g., jogging) in paid fitness facilities become popular in Korea, it is reported that 71% of people who signed up for paid fitness facilities gave up exercising in one month due to a lack of motivation [1]. Existing mobile applications (e.g., Nike+) provide joggers with measurements and social features (e.g., competition in the social network) to support their motivation as reported in [2]. Nevertheless, little is still known about design principles for creating mobile applications for regular jogging. To fill in this gap, we aim to answer to the following research questions: 1) what are the principles for designing mobile applications to support joggers' motivations? 2) what is the satisfaction of joggers with the mobile application created by the design principles? To create a mobile application, we used music as intervention because music may reduce the sensation of fatigue and increase the level of mental arousal [3].