CONCLUSION We have identified six areas where smart technologies can be applied to tailor various aspects of an individualized activity coach. Location-aware activity-type sensing (1) and self-learning individual goal setting algorithms (2) should form the basis for providing awareness of physical activity as well as obtainable goals. The generation of motivational messages can benefit from com...

The current paper describes research that is aimed to elucidate our understanding of technology factors that may help users of home exercise equipment to stay motivated for doing regular work-outs. In particular, we investigated the effects of immersion and coaching by a virtual agent on intrinsic motivation and the sense of presence of participants cycling on a stationary home exercise bike. A...

Teams are increasing their use of the Kanban process methodology across a range information system projects, including software development and data science projects. While is growing, little has been done to explore how improve team performance for teams that Kanban. One possibility introduce Coach (KC). This work reports on exploring Coach, with respect both coach could interact as well impac...

The online coach within the simulation league has become more powerful over the last few years. Therefore, new options with regard to the recognition of the opponents strategy are possible. For example, the online coach is the only player who gets the information of all the objects on the field. This leads to the idea determine the opponents play system by the online coach and then choose an ef...

In a team-based multiagent system, the ability to construct a model of an opponent team’s joint behavior can be useful for determining an agent’s expected distribution over future world states, and thus can inform its planning of future actions. This paper presents an approach to team opponent modeling in the context of the RoboCup simulation coach competition. Specifically, it introduces an au...

The Dark Triad (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism) has been linked to anti-social behaviour in sport, while often involves aggression violence, no research date examined the relationship between anger athletes. current two-sample study sought address this gap. Multi-sample cross-sectional design. Sample 1 included 224 athletes (MAGE = 23.85) 2 98 coach-athlete dyads (196 total; athl...

OBJECTIVE To test an air cleaner and health coach intervention to reduce secondhand smoke exposure compared with air cleaners alone or no air cleaners in reducing particulate matter (PM), air nicotine, and urine cotinine concentrations and increasing symptom-free days in children with asthma residing with a smoker. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial, with randomization embedded in study datab...

BACKGROUND Internet-based self-help is an effective preventive intervention for highly prevalent disorders, such as depression and anxiety. It is not clear, however, whether it is necessary to offer these interventions with professional support or if they work without any guidance. In case support is necessary, it is not clear which level of support is needed. This study examines whether an int...

The current paper describes research that is aimed at elucidating our understanding of media technology factors that may help users of exercise equipment to stay motivated for doing regular workouts. In particular, we investigated the effects of immersion and coaching by a virtual agent on intrinsic motivation and the sense of presence of participants cycling on a stationary home exercise bike....