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@phdthesis{Hewitt:2024,
author = {Hewitt, S},
title = {Emotions and Exercise: Mapping Emotions through Exercise to Design for a Healthier Lifestyle},
year = {2024}
}
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TY - THES
AB - This thesis details an investigation of the relationship between human emotions and exercise. A new understanding of the emotional experiences resulting from taking part in exercise is reported and used to inform the development of visualisations and tools to support those seeking to design new exercise interventions. The key argument of this research is that if we can understand fully the emotional drivers for, and barriers against exercise, we can inform exercisers and designers alike how to best navigate an active lifestyle and the connected emotional experience. Analysis and synthesis of previous literature across the fields of public health, exercise psychology and sports science highlighted that emotions are both barriers and benefits to exercise. This led to an exploration of emotions and emotion models used within the fields of design, behavioural science and emotion psychology and, an investigation into existing design solutions to determine their efficacy and what makes them successful or unsuccessful. The interest then shifts to the specific relationship between emotions and exercise leading to a systematic literature review which discovers a lack of focused understanding of emotions and exercise types across the published research. Two user focused studies are presented, each exploring this relationship in breadth and depth to help understand better the link between emotions and exercise and build a more comprehensive map of their relationship. The first study, a quantitative exploration, presents an overview of the emotion and exercise relationship and identifies eight key emotions: calmness, excitement, interest, joy, pride, relief, satisfaction and, triumph. Each emotion is experienced differently depending on five variables: participant sex, time of elicitation, level of athlete, number of participants, and exercise type. The findings give a greater understanding of how different variables can affect individual’s emotional experiences and all
AU - Hewitt,S
PY - 2024///
TI - Emotions and Exercise: Mapping Emotions through Exercise to Design for a Healthier Lifestyle
ER -
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