Your True Self

Pick a character and complete their exercise challenges to develop your stats and yourself!

Our bodies and minds are not happy to sit in one place all day long. Staying sedentary and passive physically undercuts our hard-worked goals, impairs our concentration and lowers our mood. Even when you’re motivated, doing nothing else can become a recipe for disaster. Studies point out that taking even short breaks during the day can act as an effective brain booster or prevent neck and shoulder problems.

“I have finally found my inner potato!” – some random person
“Exercise can be as fun as brushing your teeth!” – someone’s mom
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – an English proverb

This is why we have come up with a perfect solution to all of life’s problems, and that solution involves a potato! No, we aren’t going to distill moonshine from our poor potato. The potato is going to inspire us all to move out from our dark cellars. Or couches. Almost the same.

After a little while you might feel that the potato does not really represent your true self accurately anymore. Fear not – there are several inner selves you can continue to find and strengthen. You can be an acrobat, a yogi, a steel-bodied weightlifter. Or just a regular student who is able to learn stuff more effectively when it doesn’t hurt everywhere.

Features:

• Six different characters to customize your exercises
• One secret character
• Reminders during the day
• Daily challenge
• “Do not disturb” mode for those rare moments you want to, say, sleep

Partners:

Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK)
TAMK Business Information Systems
Project “What makes me wanna move?”

Sources:

Hyvärinen, Kirsi. "Taukoliikuntaohjelman vaikutus näyttöpäätetyöntekijöiden fyysiseen ja psyykkiseen työkykyyn." (2007).

Henning, Robert A., et al. "Frequent short rest breaks from computer work: effects on productivity and well-being at two field sites." Ergonomics 40.1 (1997): 78-91.

Galinsky, Traci L., et al. "A field study of supplementary rest breaks for data-entry operators." Ergonomics 43.5 (2000): 622-638.