Had to share this one with you. This group, theFunTheory.com, believes that we can get more people to exercise if we make it fun to do it. In this video, filmed at the Odenplan metro station in Stockholm, Sweden, the group has placed musical "plates" on the stairs so that when people walk up and down the stairs, it will play like a piano.
2 out of 3 people decided to take the stairs with this added incentive. Some just ran up the stairs in sequence but some used the stairs to play music. I would have done the later. What would you have done?
theFunTheory.com is an organization funded by Volkswagen that is based upon the theory that making things fun can be used to change people's behavior for the better. They have a number of videos showing examples including:
- Turning a recycling Bottle Bank into an arcade game.
- Adding sound effects to a trash can so it sounds like things are falling along way.
What forms of motivation have you used/seen to encourage exercise?
Share them with us.
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This is brilliant. I plan on posting it to my blog.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it, Andrew. What do you teach?
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