Beat Your Mouse Movement (BYMM)
BYMM offers a playful solution that motivates people to walk in order to get more exercise and become more conscious about their health and city environment.
The project strives to balance the growing hours spent in front of computer screens and aims to become a community of people who are keen on elevating walking as an important daily activity, as a preferred way of moving around.
It consists of two gadgets. One of them is a web/desktop application that tracks use of a mouse, while the other one counts steps. Individuals can playfully compete between their online and IRL selves, and win by walking more than mousing. BYMM is also presented through a physical installation, which tracks the real-time desktop activity and the physical distance covered by three of the team members. They are represented by a hanging pair of a mouse and a shoe, which are linked to the related data-stream. The balance and imbalance of the suspended objects visualizes our activity and at the same time the whole concept of BYMM.
BYMM was featured as part of the Out of the Garage, Into the World program at the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. The project was commissioned by ZER01 with Pachube.com and xClinic.
More info: http://beatyourmouse.com
In collaboration with David Dul, Irma Foldenyi, Laszlo Kis, Melinda Sipos, Andi Sztojanovits, Péter Palkó, Krisztián Gergely, Tamás Domonkos @ Kitchen Budapest.
