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Musical Expectancy in Squat Sonification For People Who Struggle With Physical Activity

Newbold, J; Gold, N; Bianchi-Berthouze, NL; (2017) Musical Expectancy in Squat Sonification For People Who Struggle With Physical Activity. In: Sound in Learning: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2017). (pp. pp. 65-72). Green open access

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Abstract

Physical activity is important for a healthy lifestyle. However, it can be hard to stay engaged with exercise and this can often lead to avoidance. Sonification has been used to support physical activity through the optimisation/correction of movement. Though previous work has shown how sonification can improve movement execution and motivation, the specific mechanisms of motivation have yet to be investigated in the context of challenging exercises. We investigate the role of music expectancy as a way to leverage people’s implicit and embodied understanding of music within movement sonification to provide information on technique while also motivating continuation of movement and rewarding its completion. The paper presents two studies showing how this musically informed sonification can be used to support the squat movement. The results show how musical expectancy impacted people’s perception of their own movement, in terms of reward, motivation and movement behaviour and the way in which they moved.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Musical Expectancy in Squat Sonification For People Who Struggle With Physical Activity
Event: ICAD 2017, 23rd Annual International Conference on Auditory Display, 19-23 June 2017, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Location: Pensylvania
Dates: 20 June 2017 - 23 June 2017
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.21785/icad2017.008
Publisher version: http://icad.org/icad2017/
Language: English
Additional information: Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Keywords: Physical activity, Sonification, Self-efficacy, Wearable technology
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 > UCL Interaction Centre
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555256
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