February 2003–December 2004
Seeing a need to make on-campus life healthier, this project fused aerobic exercise with entertainment to provide motivation on the fitness equipment of MIT workout facilities. Treadmills and stationary cycling are important components of fitness, but they lack the stimulation of sports.
To encourage student exercise on a regular basis, activities, such as pedaling a bike, were linked to the progress of a simple game. By watching an attached monitor, exercising students could control the movements within the game or feel resistance to obstacles. CycleScore provided MIT’s Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center with a working prototype that connected bikes to a PC to measure the relative effects of certain motivational experiences.
Student Participants: Joe Heitzeberg, Doron Harlev, Harris Rabin, David Edery