The purpose of this study is to determine how goal-setting in the context of gamification affects habit formation for physical activity among participants who are overweight or obese. We plan to use the gamification features of the Way to Health platform and the step tracking feature of to test the impact of two separate goal-setting features including 1. actively choosing a step goal versus being assigned a step goal and 2. being asked to immediately meet that goal versus being asked to make incremental changes towards that goal over an 8 week period.

Jun 1, 2018