Development of an online and customizable corporate challenge and integrated workplace wellness tracking and self-monitoring platform

The main objective of the project is to develop a customizable corporate challenge and integrated workplace wellness tracking and self-monitoring platform. Physical inactivity has a direct impact on employees’ medical condition, workplace stress, health metrics, self-reported work impairment, and absenteeism. Thus there is a crucial need for wellness programs that maximize employee participation to physical activity programs. Several initiatives have been developed to manage workplace wellness programs, but most of them are limited to walking and/or running, and no current system automatically monitors the participant’s response to the exercise program and provides timely and individual counseling, advices, reminders and personalized alerts. FITSTATS enterprise proposed a comprehensive approach by combining four methods that have demonstrated their efficiency in increasing physical activity and long-term adherence to an active lifestyle: (i) Administration of health-risk assessment questionnaires and clinical/biometric screenings. (ii) Team-based corporate wellness challenges (within the same company or between companies. (iii) Self-monitoring of physical activity (pedometer and self-reporting via mobile phone), automated graphing of progress, goal achievement. (iv) Automatic reminders, alerts and personal coaching advices (SMS or email) to participants via smartphone.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Eric Hervet

Student:

Cajetan Bouchard

Partner:

FITSTATS Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université de Moncton