We therefore organize regularly a design challenge, which does not simply yield a number of ideas. If the teams are sufficiently motivated, the ideas are developed in mutual cooperation between the inventors, the Sports & Technology cluster and its members into real prototypes that can be used in the real practise. We collaborate therefore with the Industrial Design faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The process includes user surveys, pitching during the Dutch Design Week and an interaction with possible business partners at the demo days in December.

It’s a family affair! Family bond and social connections between people can be used as a trigger
for behavior change. Which artefacts can we design to involve partners and children, becoming
co-responsible of the adoption of an healthier lifestyle (e.g. physical activity, diet, work-life
balance)?

Data-enabled design for dynamic meetings: By equipping spaces and meeting related prototypes
with sensors, you will capture contextual, behavioral and experiential data of users.
Using this data as a creative material, your challenge is to design for meeting spaces that facilitate
more active ways of working.

Workwalk: While the current Workwalk on the campus is low tech, how can you use technology
to enhance its interactivity, thus creating engaging user experiences?
Also, the moment people choose to do a Workwalk often starts just before the meeting at their
desk or in a meeting room. How can you design for this decision moment to persuade people to
leave the room and go for a Workwalk?
NB: We will provided user research data on the barriers/facilitators of a walking meeting.

Delivery Mechanisms: We’ll move our health-promotion efforts beyond the app and focus on
the concrete interactions that you can create with health promotion messages, as these are the
moments you can trigger people to change their (un/healthy) behaviors. We ask you to design
novel ‘Delivery Mechanisms’ for these messages. Examples are interactive devices (e.g. IoT
solutions), digital services (but not apps), physical interfaces (e.g. receipt printer), etc. With these
designs, we ask: How does the delivery mechanism of interventions impact the actionability of
a health promotion message? The target group is the office worker, who on average moves too
little, sits too much and has a hard time coping with stress. Can you create a design that has
people leave the office healthier than how they came in?

Rewarding feeling: Despite the rewarding feeling of exercising afterwards, exercising itself
is simply not intrinsically enjoyable for the majority of the people and it is known for their
short-term costs (e.g. sweating, physical pain, effort, time constraints). We encourage you to
design to increase this rewarding feeling by (1) Reminding: Through design, you are able to
remind people how good they felt when they exercised. How can you let this ‘postponed’
rewarding feeling already be experienced in advance (prior to the training)? (2) Last Longer: How are you able to let this rewarding feeling last longer through design?

Less is more: “One-fits-all” and “more is better” approaches and tech to motivate runners
may lead to underperformance, reduced motivation, and running-related injuries. While
motivating beginner runners to stay committed to their training is important, the focus here
is to design solutions to stimulate and encourage runners to rest properly and “run less” to
avoid (reduce) the risk of suffering running-related (overuse) injuries. We encourage you to
use innovative interfaces and experiences (e.g. skin-like interfaces, “smart clothing”, etc) to
stimulate runners to not over train nor lose motivation.