The Desert of My Dreams

My friend Sarah has challenged me to a walking competition on Walker Tracker. We’re competing to see who will walk the most steps in July. There’s not much at stake other than bragging rights and the loser having to write a blog post of shame. So far, I’ve had a good start […]

It seems like hardly anybody that I know is using WalkerTracker anymore. You people suck! Who am I supposed to compete with over an irrelevant metric? What, you all have better things to do than to go to a website and input your step count data on a daily basis?

For anyone who might be curious about how many steps I’ve been taking, I started manually inputting my steps into Steptracker. Srah got an account so I decided to go ahead and get one, too. You can’t really do much with it other than just track your own steps but I think it […]

Dear Omron HJ-112 Pedometer That I Forgot Last Week In A Hotel Room In Sunnyvale, CA:
I’m sorry that I left you, Omron HJ-112 Pedometer That I Forgot Last Week In A Hotel Room In Sunnyvale, CA. You were a good little pedometer and I miss you bulging out of my pocket, silently counting my […]

apete, mattbot, d*, and I went to the CHI conference last week to present Fitster at the Student Design Competition. Out of 48 entries, we placed third! Fitster was by far the best group project I’ve ever worked on (with all due respect to all of my former teammates from other projects) and […]

For my infoviz class, my group is working on a fitness application that uses pedometers to track the number of steps a person takes in a day. The average American walks about 5,000 steps a day and most walking programs recommend walking 10,000 steps a day. My group and I have had our […]