Team Bison (Anthony, Armita, Ben, Philippe, Tina)
Our target audience are Stanford undergraduates who live on-campus and are not student athletes. This is because we want to study how often undergraduates who live in the dorms at an academically challenging college balance work with going outside for recreation. We specifically want to focus on undergraduates who live on campus and are not student athletes, as student athletes already find themselves exercising or being outside for long periods of time regularly. The goal of our study is to analyze the existing behaviors of these students in order to determine the effectiveness of a future intervention to increase the amount of time students spend outside recreationally.
We have developed a screener (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNrvoVfE4b5m-Yp-lwf7uBJaQ-xZ7En-fNI4Lta_tu8PJCbA/viewform) to filter participants to ensure they are an active undergraduate student at Stanford, living on campus, use an iPhone and willing to share their daily number of steps for a week, do not work professionally in market research, are not a student athlete, and are willing to log the information for our study. This ensures they fit the criteria we have identified for our target audience while removing potential confounding variables or participants who may not best represent the behaviors of this target audience, such as student athletes.
In our planned study, we will be collecting logistical data. Specifically, we will have the frequency of spending time outdoors for recreation as well as the number of steps the participants have per day. These behaviors are central to our research because we want to understand the impact of interventions on students spending time outdoors recreationally with sports, hiking, running, etc. We are also asking which activity the students participated in for each instance of time spent outdoors.
From Tuesday, January 20th to Saturday, January 24th, study participants will keep a daily log of how many times they engage in outdoor recreational activity; in other words, participants will share each time they go outside for the for the sake of outdoor enjoyment, including the nature of the activity (e.g. walk, hike, run, sports, etc.). Participants will be provided a template Google Sheet with an example log to track this logistical data. In addition, participants will opt in to tracking their steps on their personal iPhone device for the duration of the study, and they will attach a screenshot of this information for each day to the aforementioned Google Sheet by the end of the week. The goal is for participants to update their Google Sheet activity log as they occur but if not, by the end of each day. These Sheets are visible to us, and if by 9PM of a given day, no edits have been made, we will individually reach out to the participant via email to remind them.
Study Materials:
Introduction Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PWU3EigzmHyyFosinGQnbP2O0CKkgOJtE8VrBcxj6RI/edit?tab=t.0
Emails: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cYGgnXgg-iiHDZWoVQAvN1hDYNDy7p-H75dr7-bJBFw/edit?tab=t.0
