TY - CONF
T1 - Personal mobile sports companion
T2 - 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007
AU - Knebel, Uta
AU - Leimeister, Jan Marco
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a Lilly Innovation Fellowship Award (Elli Lilly Company - https://www.lilly.com) to A.R., a Keck Fellowship (W. M. Keck Foundation - http://www.wmkeck.org) to C.J., and grants to N.E.L. from Novo Nordisk Foundation: Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (grant no. NNF16CC0021858 - http://novonordiskfonden.dk/en) and from National Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant no. R35 GM119850 - https://www.nigms.nih.gov)
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Integrated product-service packages (hybrid products) can open new markets and target groups to companies. However, existing approaches to service or product development do not sufficiently address simultaneous development and domain-specific issues. A very promising new field for such bundles is the health and fitness industry. In this research, we designed and built an IT-supported training system for running (the Mobile Sports Companion, MSC) that closely interlocks a product and corresponding services using an iterative development process. We tested the pilot system with 14 recreational athletes. The results of the field test show that the MSC proved to be a promising tool to offer athletes an effective individual, flexible and mobile training. However, the system, as it is, did not sufficiently represent the human trainer behind it, thus lowering its acceptance and the credibility of its recommendations. Our next step is to integrate features that could strengthen the athlete-trainer relationship. The MSC could turn out to be a promising field for future ebusiness applications.
AB - Integrated product-service packages (hybrid products) can open new markets and target groups to companies. However, existing approaches to service or product development do not sufficiently address simultaneous development and domain-specific issues. A very promising new field for such bundles is the health and fitness industry. In this research, we designed and built an IT-supported training system for running (the Mobile Sports Companion, MSC) that closely interlocks a product and corresponding services using an iterative development process. We tested the pilot system with 14 recreational athletes. The results of the field test show that the MSC proved to be a promising tool to offer athletes an effective individual, flexible and mobile training. However, the system, as it is, did not sufficiently represent the human trainer behind it, thus lowering its acceptance and the credibility of its recommendations. Our next step is to integrate features that could strengthen the athlete-trainer relationship. The MSC could turn out to be a promising field for future ebusiness applications.
KW - Fitness
KW - Health
KW - Iterative development
KW - Product-service bundle
KW - Service
KW - Sport
KW - Training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84869465845&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84869465845
SP - 81
EP - 92
Y2 - 7 June 2007 through 9 June 2007
ER -
