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title: Ideation of "Plan H"

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# Ideation of "Plan H"

## Problem Statement

Overcome the limits of home training using social computing

## Problem Background

According to news from Kotra, the home training industry is growing fast after COVID-19. However, several limits exist with home training compared to traditional gym training. Two trainees who experienced the home training points out the limitation of tool and space making most of the exercises impossible. It’s also hard to push themselves to the limits due to safety issues. Online Personal Trainer proposed few disadvantages of teaching trainees online, online PT would be more effective in social format rather than traditional 1 on 1 training.

## Motivation

Home training became essential for those interested in health conditions after COVID-19. Home training itself also has irreplaceable benefits such as freedom of time and space. Individual experts don’t exist everywhere and machines are not available in all spaces. Although there are several limits, the best tool we have to overcome those limits is modern technology and social computing. By utilizing social computing skills, things that couldn't have been possible in offline such as exercising with more than thousands of people or active random interaction would be possible. Also, it would be easy to gather and select useful data from big trainee pool.

## HMW questions

1. HMW emphasize the convenience of home training(e.g. do not have to move)?
2. HMW reduce the social distance between trainer and user?
3. **HMW enhance irreplaceable benefits of home training?**
4. HMW make home training engaging rather than boring? 
5. HMW utilize aspects of home itself to the training? 
6. HMW use some successful parts of other instances of cyberized culture?
7. HMW make this online gymnastic society crowded as much as other famous SNS?
8. **HMW keep users to be prompted not to give up exercising and to share their progress?**
9. HMW attract and gather users?
10. **HMW provide training methods to users effectively?**

### Voting for HMW Selection
#### How the voting went
Each member gets to pick up to 4 HMW questions they like.
If two or more options get same vote, we would vote again with only those options.

![](https://i.imgur.com/ObAkzIa.png)

### Comments on Top 3
#### 1. HMW enhance irreplaceable benefits of home training? 
"There needs to be some reasons for people to stay at home during Pandemic."
"Focusing on the benefits only driven by home training could induce uniqueness"
"Finding and utilizing these benefits would be helpful even after the COVID19"
#### 2. HMW keep users to be prompted not to give up exercising and to share their progress?
"Lack of continuous will is the biggest challenge for all exercise plans so overcoming it with social home training would be meaningful"
"It's important to share one's status frequently during the training."
#### 3. HMW provide training methods to users effectively?
"Minimizing the difference between offline and online training would be critical"
"There should be ways to teach accurate movements to begginers"


## Solution Ideas
### HMW enhance irreplaceable benefits of home training?
1. Easily engage family or roommates.
2. Maximize time efficiency so that user can attempt easily.
3. Dedicated plans according to person and environment.
4. Only show appearance to one user who wants to show.
5. **Diverse scale of engagement (e.g. lots of people can participate together)**


### HMW keep users to be prompted not to give up exercising and to share their progress?
1. Reward system of variety of mission (e.g. money, coupon)
2. Diverse Ranking system (local, age, male/female, private group)
3. **Decorate one’s Avatar according to one’s progress(game features)**
4. Cooperative challenge (e.g. total 100000 steps together)
5. Notifications of provocative messages to users who seem to lose interests.(e.g. not participating for long times)


### HMW provide training methods to users effectively?
1. Show wrong posture of other users 
2. Provide various tips frequently
3. Personalize work-out program(e.g. exercise intensities)
4. **Introducing exercise methods using props around users. (stairs, chair)**
5. Classify equipment and related work-out programs.

### Solution voting
#### How the voting went
Each member gets to pick up to 5 solutions they like.
If two or more options get same vote, we would vote again with only those options.
![](https://i.imgur.com/7c95Fjl.png)

### Comments on Top 3
#### 1. Diverse scale of engagement (e.g. lots of people can participate together)
"The number of people included in some activity would only be limited by server, which is fabulous"
"The best way to utilize social computing, especially when the scale grows larger"
"Online environment would be much easier for people to start and engage on training"
#### 2. Decorate one’s Avatar according to one’s progress(game features)
"The reason why people work out is to show themselves to the others. Same would apply online"
"Making the users to love the character they decorate would be meaningful"
#### 3. Introducing exercise methods using props around users. (stairs, chair)
"Fully utilizing the daily tools around would widen the scope of exercising"
"Exercising is how we move muscles rather than movements made by tools. This way of approach would also go well with aspects of home training"

## Storyboards
### Diverse scale of engagement
![](https://i.imgur.com/bafZ13z.jpg)

### Decorate one’s Avatar according to one’s progress(game features)
![](https://i.imgur.com/MvdDzb0.png)


### Introducing exercise methods using props around users. (stairs, chair)
![](https://i.imgur.com/6t2cfFs.png)
