2. Overview
My Fitness Badges is a platform that empowers users to create badges for
their health and fitness goals. Unlike other badging platforms, where users
select from a list of available badges, the system is open ended and limited
only by the ambitions of badge creators.
Users will self-select goals by creating badge criteria and artwork. The
criteria available within the badge creation tool is derived in part from
Aligning Forces data. This ensures that the badges are useful to healthcare
professionals and beneficial to badge creators.
Every badge created is a health interest survey. Every badge earned is a data
point. In the end, users become healthier and our dataset becomes more
robust.
Powered by Badge Forge, a finalist in the Badges for Lifelong Learning
competition.
3. How it works
• Users make an account and begin creating badges on their own or by the
advice of their doctor.
• Users create badge criteria by picking a subject, action, time, and degree.
The system automatically formats the criteria information into sentences.
When users complete their goals they can validate their badges with a four
tiered system.
1. Self-validation – I did it!
2. Group validation – Two friends hold them accountable.
3. Expert validation - Doctors and trainers provide confirmation.
4. System validation – Confirmation from a GPS or pedometer.
4. Two stories
• Sally makes a New Years resolution to • Jessica needs physical therapy for an
be healthier. ankle injury.
• She sets some goals and creates • She creates incremental badges for
badges to represent them. (running, walking, running, and eventually
losing weight, lowering her
cholesterol to 200). playing soccer the following summer.
• As she completes her goals she earns • Her therapist never has to remind her
badges and shares them with her to do her exercises because she has
family. made her own goals.
• The data from her badges feeds in a • She even made a coop badge with a
pool of public data on health trends. fellow patient who has a similar injury.
• She receives a bonus at work and a • Jessica meets all of her goals and
drop in her insurance rates. exceeds her therapist’s expectations.
• During her next check-up she has lost • She plays soccer next summer.
weight and her cholesterol is down.
5. Utilizing Data
The criteria creation tool inside My Fitness Badges will be seeded using public
health data and health provider recommendations. Each created badge has the
meta-data baked into it so the badges are transferable to platforms like Mozilla
Open Badges.
Sample badge subjects
• Weight loss
• Exercise
• Cholesterol
• Health screenings
• Dieting
• Rehabilitation goals
6. Tangible Rewards
Earned badges could lead to real rewards like:
– Insurance premium decreases
– Bonuses from employers
– Gym memberships
– Recognition in a fitness leader board
7. Partnerships
The 4-tiered badge validation options within the system
will make partnerships with organizations mutually
beneficial.
Potential partners include: insurance companies,
employers, gyms, and healthcare providers.
Badges can be shared on Mozilla’s Open Badge
Network. So sharing successes across platforms is easy.
