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Project Spotlight: CycleScore

The key to success with exercise has little to do with your fitness or appearance goals, say MIT students who used research on the psychology of exercise to create a motivational video exercise game. The key, they say, is distraction.

"People don't like to see time on the display. They don't want to see '15 minutes' flashing at them," said Harris Rabin, a graduate student at the Sloan School and a creator of CycleScore, an electronic hot-air balloon game wired to an exercise bike. "The balloon game distracts them from the boring exercise. It takes them into another world where they are a hot-air balloon."

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(Source: Denise Brehm, News Office May 5, 2004)

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