Summary

Most young adults in Taiwan depend on motorcycles for their daily transport, even for short distance trips. To investigate behavior change, the user study reported here shows that companionship and the sense of social presence encourages users to change their behaviors.

With this focus in mind, we present a system thatutilizes interpersonal involvement and exercise to
develop a walking culture. Supporting functionality to detect user walking and motorcycle riding frequency, FootPal is a novel system for walkers to encourage each other to walk, to have self awareness of behavior change, and to receive intimate reminders from others.