Motivating People with Chronic Pain to do Physical Activity: Opportunities for Technology Design

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Motivating People with Chronic Pain to do Physical Activity: Opportunities for Technology Design

Singh, A; Klapper, A; Jia, J; Fidalgo, A; Tajadura-Jimenez, A; Kanakam, N; Bianchi-Berthouze, N; (2014) Motivating People with Chronic Pain to do Physical Activity: Opportunities for Technology Design. In: ACM. Association for Computing Machinery Green open access

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Abstract

Physical activity is important for improving quality of life in people with chronic pain. However, actual or anticipated pain exacerbation, and lack of confidence when doing physical activity, make it difficult to maintain and build towards long-term activity goals. Research guiding the design of interactive technology to motivate and support physical activity in people with chronic pain is lacking. We conducted studies with: (1) people with chronic pain, to understand how they maintained and increased physical activity in daily life and what factors deterred them; and (2) pain-specialist physiotherapists, to understand how they supported people with chronic pain. Building on this understanding, we investigated the use of auditory feedback to address some of the psychological barriers and needs identified and to increase self-efficacy, motivation and confidence in physical activity. We conclude by discussing further design opportunities based on the overall findings.

Type:	Proceedings paper
Title:	Motivating People with Chronic Pain to do Physical Activity: Opportunities for Technology Design
Event:	CHI'14
Dates:	2014-04-28 - 2014-05-01
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.1145/2556288.2557268
Publisher version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557268
Language:	English
Additional information:	Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s). Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
Keywords:	Chronic Pain, Technology for Physical Rehabilitation, Movement Sonification
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1420982