Wii vs Life

So the next part of my research was to compare exercise in different environments and how this affects your mood as well as motivation. I chose to do a case study on comparing exercise on the 'Wii' to doing the same activity in real life.
I believe the wii is good at getting people involved in exercise but I also think my video shows that most people are much happier doing the activity in real life. The difference in effort required also comes across strongly in the video in addition to how competition can affect the amount of effort you put in.
I'm going to stop blabbing now because the video speaks for itself!

Emotion Graphs.

Moving on from the fitness diaries I wanted to find out more about peoples moods during exercise so I had 15 individuals complete the following two line graphs.

The first was completed from the time of one hour prior to exercise, during exercise and then ending on post exercise. And the second was completed in relation to moods if you don't exercise at the time you would normally.

4 samples featured above.

My findings show that after doing exercise peoples moods were happier and if they didn't do exercise their moods were much unhappier. This backed up how I evaluated the fitness diaries.

7 Day Fitness Diary

My research began with a 7 day fitness diary. I handed out the booklets to 8 individuals to try and find out about their exercising habits and if there is anything that strongly affects when and how they exercise. I wasn't too sure what I'd get back from this however the results have pushed my project in the direction of looking into how emotion can determine how, when, where and why people exercise. The diaries pushed me in this direction because of two findings. The first finding was from one of the first questions,it asked to pick a colour to describe their mood for the day and this showed that on days when people picked darker and duller colours they tend to exercise less (if at all) and days when they picked brighter colours they did much more exercise and were motivated to do more. The second finding backs up the first and this was from asking each person to draw something they'd doone that day, something that made them laugh, draw a picture of them exercising etc. (One drawing per day) These are featured above.