{"id":3461,"date":"2012-07-10T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2012-07-11T00:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T04:49:15","slug":"that-was-less-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"That was less boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAMES BUILT INTO EXERCISE MACHINES<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3462\" title=\"fish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/darts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3463\" title=\"darts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/darts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decision Science News was back in its former home of Berlin this week. <\/p>\n<p>The hotel they put us up in provided free entry to a fancy gym next door. This gym had rowing machines. In the past, we&#8217;ve always found it hard to resist trying rowing machines, but always found them too boring to use for long.<\/p>\n<p>But this rowing machine, the clever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concept2.com\/us\/motivation\/games\/default.asp\">Concept2<\/a>, had built in games.<\/p>\n<p>In the fish game, above left, you regulate the speed of your rowing to eat smaller fish and avoid sharks.<\/p>\n<p>In the dart game, which is better, an even speed of rowing steers virtual darts into a target.<\/p>\n<p>Both games provide you a score, which if you are human, you may find hard to resist improving. We figure the games added 20 minutes to our workout. And we&#8217;re going back tomorrow and try them again. <\/p>\n<p>Call it gamification, incentives for exercise, or whatever; we like the combination of games and exercise machines.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should just take up a sport?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rowing machine, the clever Concept2 has built in games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[159,216,215,406,408,388,407],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-behavioral-economics","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-games","tag-gamification","tag-incentives","tag-rowing-maching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}