‘Get Walking’ Introduction
Welcome to team Get Walking’s website and blog. This team formed to help motivate people to take a walk; we are a very multidisciplinary group from the School of Information and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. 4 of our 5 team members are in the School of Information’s Interface and Interaction Design class, and we are also taking part in this year’s CHI student design competition. We will partner over the course of the semester with a local Ann Arbor organization, Get Downtown, which is also heavily invested in motivating people to walk. Our team is looking forward to developing creative, engaging, and user-centered designs to get people to go take a walk.
I downloaded your app and I’m wondering how you went about getting such a clean user interface while using App Inventor. Are all of the screens just images and you are changing them based on where people touch?
Hi Bill, thanks for your note. I’m glad to hear you downloaded the app and were able to see it in action. You’re exactly right about how we got it to work – all of the screens are images, and we set ‘active’ areas that will change to a new ’screen image’ when users select anything within the area. It was important to us to preserve the look and feel of our app prototype, and this was the best way we could do that. Let us know if you have more specific questions and I can put you in touch with the people who developed our prototype.