SCIENCE OF THE TIME TREND RESEARCH & INNOVATION NETWORK 5 ICONIC EXAMPLES WWW.SCIENCEOFTHETIME.COM | WWW.SIGNS-SEEDS.COM JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST QUANTIFYING THE SELF - IMPROVING MY HEALTH - ANYTHING ELSE - IN A GAMIFICATION CONTEXT VIEW 5 ICONIC EXAMPLES THEMES TREND
Improving My Health + Anything Else + In a Gamification Context = Quantifying the Self. http://scienceofthetime.com/study/mentality-trends/quantifying-the-self/
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QUANTIFYING THE SELF- IMPROVING MY HEALTH- ANYTHING ELSE- IN A GAMIFICATION CONTEXT
SCIENCE OF THE TIME TREND RESEARCH & INNOVATION NETWORK 5 ICONIC EXAMPLES WWW.SCIENCEOFTHETIME.COM | WWW.SIGNS-SEEDS.COM JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST
The Pain Squad app, developed by Cundari and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (Canada), is
designed for sick children. The idea behind this app is that patients are recruited by a Special Police Unit to
hunt down pain. Accordingly so, it is a playful way to let ill kids regularly update their pain diary. Twice a day,
patients are reminded to complete a pain-reporting mission, answering questions about pain intensity using
a simple touchscreen interface. The results are immediately forwarded to the corresponding doctors.The Pain Squad App was awarded “Best App in The World” by the MAAW. One can imagine why. This is
where solid gamification helps to complete a serious task.
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Moves is an app that automatically records any walking, cycling and running you do, without the use of a button. The app operates on the background of your phone and automatically recognizes how many miles or kilometres you have walked, cycled, run or travelled by transport.
Needless to say this data can then be exported and analysed.
Key thing about this smart, wearable app is the omission of the start button. There is no need to press start and
stop: this app checks on you the whole day without even noticing.