Cycle

## Inspiration

During the pandemic, with all the restrictions and the burden of social distance, the outdoor activities became impaired. Sports and other competitions were postponed and gyms closed. Our houses became our workplace and physical activities were, for many people, put aside. Thus, in the long-awaited twilight of this health crisis, how can we avoid sedentary lifestyles and engage in physical activities, keeping sustainability in mind?

What it does

The project focuses on the challenge of making people more active, maintaining social distance during the pandemic and challenges related to mobility and the environment.

The proposal is to create an application with the following features:

• allow users to easily locate each other through a map, this allows for greater sociability;
• allow users to invite others to ride
• estimation of the calories spent on the activity, which provides to the user the impact of the activity on their health;
• provide information about the rights and duties of the cyclist in traffic through an educational game; estimation of carbon emission reduction with the activity;
• gamification of the activity through points per km traveled and subsequent possibility of exchanging points for products from environmentally conscious stores with the seal https://bcorporation.net/

How we built it

Figma.

Challenges we ran into

Time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We had the opportunity to address physical activities, education and sustainability in the same project.

What's next for Cycle

The development of Cycle using the Design Thinking framework (In order to better understand the unmet needs of the people we’re creating for and test the prototype to refine ideas by gathering feedback) and the development of the application (front-end and back-end).

References:

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Hunt, J. D., & Abraham, J. E. (2007). Influences on bicycle use. Transportation, 34(4), 453-470.

Latella, C., & Haff, G. G. (2020). Global Challenges of Being a Strength Athlete during a Pandemic: Impacts and Sports-Specific Training Considerations and Recommendations. Sports, 8(7), 100.

Lim, M. A., & Pranata, R. (2021). Sports activities during any pandemic lockdown. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-), 190(1), 447-451.

Meschik, M. (2012). Reshaping city traffic towards sustainability why transport policy should favor the bicycle instead of car traffic. Procedia-social and behavioral sciences, 48, 495-504.

Piramuthu, O. B., & Zhou, W. (2016, January). Bicycle sharing, social media, and environmental sustainability. In 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (pp. 2078-2083). IEEE.

Built With

• figma