Exploring Flow Experience Requirements in Intelligent Fitness through the Perspective of Whole-Body Interaction

Abstract: The rapid development of intelligent fitness products has shifted design focus from solely emphasizing fitness effectiveness to prioritizing a holistic fitness experience. Integrating the concept of flow experience into the design of smart fitness products has proven effective in enhancing user satisfaction from both emotional and overall experiential perspectives. With the advancement of interactive technologies, users now engage in increasingly diverse interaction behaviors during fitness activities, demanding a more comprehensive approach to user research that considers the comprehensive interaction between users and their environment.This research explores the core challenge of exploring flow experience requirements from a whole-body interaction perspective during the user research process. The paper first delves into the elements of flow experience, subsequently conducting an in-depth exploration of methods for collecting and analyzing whole-body interaction data during fitness processes. Building upon this foundation, the paper establishes an insight pathway into flow experience requirements within the framework of whole-body interaction.The study sequentially analyzes the interactive technologies of smart fitness products and the environmental scene factors of fitness spaces to construct a rational user research experimental process and environment. Through user scenario interaction experiments, we collects and analyzes users' physical behaviors and implicit activities, ultimately deriving insightful requirements.In our user research on the home fitness treadmills design, we validated the effectiveness of this insight pathway。 The paper establishes a user research methodology based on the perspective of whole-body interaction and flow experience goals, providing guidance for a novel research approach in this field.

Keywords: Whole-body Interaction, Flow Experience, User Research Methodology

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005446

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