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Healthier Together: the double win competition

Healthier Together

From Thursday 14/04 until Wednesday 04/05, we are hosting the lifestyle program “Healthier Together”. This three-week online program is designed scientifically with the aim to promote the health of our
own NXP colleagues, friends, and family.

During these three weeks, you will participate in a team of your choice against other teams. Every week, you will receive a set of healthy suggestions in a web application. Everybody will win; insights into your own health and a taste of a healthier lifestyle. Besides, there will be a fun prize for the winning team! The competition is aimed at studying different motivations for certain types of participants.

Curious? Read the GameBus app User Guide

Join? Make a team of a maximum of 5 (family, friends, or colleagues), send an email with your team name and the number of players to anne.smits@nxp.com, and the rest will come to you.

Questions? Contact us via anne.smits@nxp.com!

GameBus app User Guide

  1. What is GameBus?
  2. Healthier Together social competition
  3. Privacy and security

1. What is GameBus?

GameBus is an app that rewards teams for playing together healthy, social, cognitive, and physical activities.  

GameBus is an app that allows families or teams of colleagues to keep each other healthy through fun competitions. Participants are challenged to engage in cognitive, social, and physical activities so that everyone is allowed to win through activities they truly enjoy. External apps and devices are linked, and all activity data is treated ethically under the property of the participant.

Teams 

People can make teams and challenge other teams. Meanwhile, performing healthy activities is central. Participants decide with whom they want to form a team. Teams can be comprised of colleagues, friends, family, or anyone they can think of. 

Activities

When participants have joined a team, they can perform activities. These activities can be completed in two ways. First, there are activities organized by the developers of GameBus. These activities belong to the competition and are rewarded with points. The second type of activity is planned and made by the participant. Most activities are recorded in the background to not have to constantly look at a screen. 

Categories of the activities 

With GameBus, it is possible to register activities in three health categories: physical, cognitive, and social activities. An example of the physical category is the automatic registration of jogging or cycling activities. In principle, this concerns all physical activities that can already be registered with existing apps, such as the popular apps Strava and Runkeeper. The information GameBus needs for these physical activities are retrieved from these types of apps, of course, with the users’ consent.

Activities such as: running, cycling, calorie count…

Regarding cognitive activities, Gamebus supports two types of games. This again concerns external apps that are linked, whereby information is passed on to Gamebus in the background. For instance, the app Griddlers consists of solving various number puzzles. This includes Sudoku’s that can be solved via the Griddlers app as well as via puzzle books. When a user has created these riddles in a booklet, of course, we cannot retrieve the information automatically. However, the user can still enter the results manually in the GameBus app in such a case.

Activities such as: chess competition, puzzles, board games…

Finally, social activities have been considered. In this category, we support a continuous GPS registration from the so-called GameBus Messenger app. Based on GPS and WI-Fi, we can immediately deduce with whom you have a physical, social interaction in the real world. This gives you an extra health bonus; in addition to physical sport, social interaction keeps you extra healthy. 

Activities such as: All above activities but together with a teammate.

Different game types are thus brought together in an integrated score. A team can add up these points and play against other teams. Different points are awarded to players of different age categories to make it possible for everyone to win. 

Score and rewards

GameBus also provides an overview of individual performance. This is only visible to the individual. The activities performed in the competition are visible to the entire team and competitors. The winner of the competition will receive a nice price.

For more information about the functionalities of the app, you can check out this page.

2. Healthier Together social Competition

Healthier Together is an online lifestyle program offered to anyone affiliated with NXP that wants to get (back) to the top of their game and achieve those New Year resolutions. The social factor is central in this competitive game. Therefore, friends, family, and everyone you know is welcome to participate. Healthier Together is a competition in which teams compete against other teams. Who is in your team is entirely up to the participants.

Everyone can accomplish tasks and earn points for their team. This competitive game starts on the 14th of April and ends on the 4th of May. Will your team have the most points in the end? Then, they win the prize!

3. Privacy and security

As you have already read in the above topics, privacy and security are key points of GameBus. Participants can decide to use a fake name and temporary email address. The user can always determine what they want to share and what not. GameBus’ privacy policy can be found here.

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TU/e Samen Gezond

Lifestyle program: TU/e Samen Gezond

From Monday 16/11 until Sunday 20/12, we are hosting the lifestyle program “TU/e Samen Gezond”. This five-week online program is designed scientifically with the aim to promote the health of our
own university staff.

During these five weeks, you will receive an advanced smartwatch connected exclusively to our GDPR-compliant TU/e infrastructure aimed at studying which health-promoting techniques are most effective for certain types of participants. Every week, you will receive a set of healthy suggestions in a web application and the smartwatch will also prompt you with short questions related to your wellbeing.

Curious? Check out tue.samengezond.app (100 watches are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis).

How to use the application on the smartwatch? checkout GameBus Wear Application User Guide

Questions? Contact us via tue@samengezond.app!

This event is part of the Vitality Week 2020, based on our collaboration with the sports center and the TU/e Vital Campus initiative.

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#DSS17 Social Media Challenge

The aim of this GameBus challenge is to boost the social media coverage for #DSS17, that is: the Data Science Summit 2017 at Eindhoven University of Technology.

When (re-)Tweeting a Twitter message with #DSS17 as the first tag , you will score five points. During the summit, we will keep all attendees and social media followers up-to-date about the leaderboard. Furthermore, we will reward the most active challenge participants according to the uptake of this challenge.

Challenge Rewards:

  • Fancy Coffee Mugs
  • High Quality Bath Towel
  • Supercharged Keychains

Challenge Duration:

  • Start: Monday December 4th, kicking of at 09:00AM
  • End:Monday December 4th, during the reception at 06:00PM.

Tip: follow https://twitter.com/TUe_DSCe and score points by re-Tweeting the various messages about the keynotes!

Further down this page, we provide manuals in two flavors:

Manual for DIY Techies

In order to score points, you should:

  1. create an account in GameBus,
  2. connect your Twitter account via Settings>Apps,
  3. Join the #DSS17 challenge via http://app.gamebus.eu/#/challenges/new
  4. Tweet #DSS17 as the first hashtag of your messages, and finally
  5. monitor your progress via the leaderboard in the Challenges view of GameBus.

Via the GameBus Activities view, you can also find copies of your Twitter posts to double-check when that you are receiving points.

Alea iacta est!

Manual with step by step instructions

1. Create an account in GameBus

For the sake of simplicity, it is strongly encouraged to sign up with one of your social media accounts (Google or Facebook). We will then read your identity information to initialise your GameBus account automatically. You can then move to Step 2. Note that we will never post Google or Facebook messages on your behalf, unless you instruct us explicitly to do so.

In the following, we explain the more tedious process of creating a GameBus account from scratch. Select the option CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT then continue with SIGN UP. When creating a new account you have to fill in your fist name, last name, email address and create a password. You will receive a confirmation email in which you have to press the activiation link to activate your account.

After signing up, you can answer three questions to help us understand better which type of person you are.

2. Connect your Twitter account to GameBus

Please go to the GameBus section Settings>Apps, scroll down to the Twitter entry and then press Connect and Allow. You may also be prompted to authenticate and give authorization within Twitter too.

3. Join the #DSS17 challenge

Please join via http://app.gamebus.eu/#/challenges/new

4. Create Twitter content

You can use the Twitter website or any compatible client to create messages related to the data science summit.  If you use #DSS17 as the first hashtag of your messages then you will automatically score points on the GameBus STAF17 challenge.

5. Check Your Progress

Monitor your progress via the leaderboard in the Challenges>Joined>Active view of GameBus. Via the Activities view, you can also find copies of your Twitter posts to double-check when that you are receiving points. Your participation to the challenge will be represented by an orange bar and the top three leaders will be represented by a green bullet at the left of their bar.

Alea iacta est!

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GameBus Pilot #3 @ De Woenselse Poort

Join the challenge!
Door mee te doen aan deze wedstrijd maak je kans op een cadeaubon en werk je tegelijkertijd aan je risicofactoren binnen De Woenselse Poort. Dit keer kan je zelf kiezen aan welke van de 4 wedstrijden je meedoet en zal er 1 globaal leaderboard komen die alle punten samenvat. De wedstrijden waaruit je kan kiezen zijn:
1) Het invullen van je agenda op je iPad
2) Deelname aan arbeid/scholing/therapie en training
3) Gebruik van Minddistrict
4) Deelname aan sport
Ik registreer de punten voor je op die van de agenda activiteit na. Aan het einde van de wedstrijd zal de winnaar bekend worden gemaakt.
Op een leuke manier kan je je mede cliënten weer uitdagen de competitie aan te gaan om ze veel mogelijk punten te scoren en hoog op het leaderboard te eindigen. Doordat er vele soorten activiteiten meedoen en je zelf kan kiezen welke je het meeste aanspreekt/aanspreken heeft iedereen kans om te winnen. Ga de uitdaging aan en versla je mede cliënten!

Belangrijke data:

  • 2 augustus: Start van de derde wedstrijdronde
  • 23 augustus: Uitreiking derde prijzenronde
  • 23 augustus: Gezamenlijke afsluiting en uitreiking van de laatste prijzenronde

Ik hoop dat je weer enthousiast mee doet en je te zien in het eHealth center!

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#STAF17 Social Media Challenge

The aim of this GameBus challenge is to boost the social media coverage for #STAF17 and in particular its main events (ICGT, ICMT, TAP, ECMFA and TTC).

When (re-)Tweeting a Twitter message with as the first tag any of #ICGT17, #ICMT17, #TAP17, #ECMFA17, #TTC17 or #STAF17 , you will score one point. During the conference, we will keep all attendees and social media followers up-to-date about the leaderboard. Furthermore, we will reward the most active challenge participants according to the uptake of this challenge.

Challenge Rewards:

  • Honorary Mentioning on the Conference Website
  • Fancy Coffee Mugs

Challenge Duration:

  • Start: Monday July 17th, kicking of during the conference welcome reception
  • End: Friday July 21st, at the official conference end (18:00).

Tip: follow https://twitter.com/staf2017conf and score points by re-Tweeting the various messages about the keynotes and other talks!

Further down this page, we provide manuals in two flavors:

Manual for DIY Techies

In order to score points, you should:

  1. create an account in GameBus,
  2. join the GameBus team named “STAF17 Supporters”,
  3. connect your Twitter account via Settings>Apps,
  4. Tweet with any of #ICGT17, #ICMT17, #TAP17, #ECMFA17, #TTC17 or #STAF17  as the first hashtag of your messages, and finally
  5. monitor your progress via the leaderboard in the Challenges view of GameBus.

Via the GameBus Activities view, you can also find copies of your Twitter posts to double-check when that you are receiving points.

Alea iacta est!

Manual with step by step instructions

1. Create an account in GameBus

For the sake of simplicity, it is strongly encouraged to sign up with one of your social media accounts (Google or Facebook). We will then read your identity information to initialise your GameBus account automatically. You can then move to Step 2. Note that we will never post Google or Facebook messages on your behalf, unless you instruct us explicitly to do so.

In the following, we explain the more tedious process of creating a GameBus account from scratch. Select the option CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT then continue with SIGN UP. When creating a new account you have to fill in your fist name, last name, email address and create a password. You will receive a confirmation email in which you have to press the activiation link to activate your account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After signing up, you can answer three questions to help us understand better which type of person you are. Finally, you can use the second button to join the STAF17 team (covered further in the next step).

 

2. Join the STAF17 Supporters Team

To join a team you have to go the Teams page in the app by selecting Teams in the main menu of the app.

 

 

 

 

Then, navigate to the tab FIND TEAMS. Then, enter STAF17 as the team to search for and press the magnification glass icon. When you have found the team named “STAF17 Supporters” team, please select the JOIN button at the right of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, you can navigate back to your teams and access the overall GameBus menu. We recommend you to follow the leaderboard in the Challenges view. Your request to join the team for STAF17 should be approved within a few minutes.

3. Connect your Twitter account to GameBus

Please go to the GameBus section Settings>Apps, scroll down to the Twitter entry and then press Connect and Allow. You may also be prompted to authenticate and give authorization within Twitter too.

 

 

 

4. Create Twitter content

You can use the Twitter website or any compatible client to create messages related to STAF17.  If you use any of #ICGT17, #ICMT17, #TAP17, #ECMFA17, #TTC17 or #STAF17 as the first hashtag of your messages then you will automatically score points on the GameBus STAF17 challenge.

5. Check Your Progress

Monitor your progress via the leaderboard in the Challenges>Joined>Active view of GameBus. Via the Activities view, you can also find copies of your Twitter posts to double-check when that you are receiving points. Your participation to the challenge will be represented by an orange bar and the top three leaders will be represented by a green bullet at the left of their bar.

Alea iacta est!

 

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Beweeg & Scoor: Moves!

In de zomer van 2017 maken we het u extra gemakkelijk om punten te scoren voor Beweeg & Scoor. Door onderstaande stappen eenmalig uit te voeren wordt zal de zogenaamde “Moves” app op uw smartphone automatisch uw stappen tellen en dagelijks doorsturen naar GameBus. Moves houdt ook bij op welke locatie u langer dan 30 minuten vertoefd heeft*.

Vervolgens,  verdien je zonder extra geklik in op je smartphone 10 Beweeg & Scoor punten:

  • elke dag dat Moves op de achtergrond 4000 stappen geregistreerd heeft, en
  • elke keer dat Moves op de achtergrond registreerde dat je op de piste van Den Uyt was.

Je mag naast de door Moves verdiende punten ook nog punten claimen via de andere activiteiten in de GameBus app!

Wil je wat extra inspiratie of gezelschap voor een lunchwandeling of sportsessie? Contacteer de sportdienst voor speciaal uitgestippelde routes. Leg ook contact met collega’s via het Prikbord op het Intranet en maak samen een gezonde lunchwandeling! Of houd een bespreking terwijl u samen een blokje rond wandelt.

 

Voetnoot *: enkel een bezoek aan de sportpiste van Den Uyt wordt kenbaar gemaakt via de Beweeg & Scoor campagne.  Uw andere bezochte locaties blijven afgeschermd in uw persoonlijke GameBus profiel (tenzij u zelf aan wedstrijden deelneemt die bezoek andere locaties belonen).

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GameBus Pilot Persoonlijke Competenties @ De Woenselse Poort

Join the challenge and become a better you!

Door mee te doen aan deze wedstrijd maak je kans op een cadeaubon en werk je tegelijkertijd aan je risicofactoren binnen De Woenselse Poort. Er kunnen in deze wedstrijd punten verzameld worden voor het deelnemen aan arbeid, scholing en training. Iedere keer wanneer je aan één van deze 3 activiteiten deelneemt zal je 5 punten krijgen. Werk aan je persoonlijke ontwikkeling en scoor zo veel mogelijk punten. Op een leuke manier kan je je mede cliënten uitdagen de competitie aan te gaan om zo veel mogelijk punten te scoren en hoog op het scorebord te eindigen! Doordat er naast deze 3 activiteiten nog allerlei activiteiten worden meegenomen heeft iedereen gelijke kans om te winnen en het vraagt maar erg weinig van je eigen tijd. Ga dus de uitdaging aan en win leuke prijzen!

Belangrijke data

  • 28 juni: Start wedstrijd
  • 12 juli: Uitreiking eerste prijzenronde
  • 26 juli: Uitreiking tweede prijzenronde
  • 9 augustus: Uitreiking derde prijzenronde
  • 23 augustus: Gezamenlijke afsluiting en uitreiking van de laatste prijzenronde

Praktische informatie

In onderstaande tabel kan je zien voor welke activiteiten je allemaal punten kan scoren, hoe veel punten je scoort en of je ze wel of niet zelf moet registreren.

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GameBus Pilot Agenda @ De Woenselse Poort

Join the Agenda challenge!

Door mee te doen aan deze wedstrijd maak je kans op een cadeaubon en werk je tegelijkertijd aan je risicofactoren binnen De Woenselse Poort. Er kunnen in deze wedstrijd punten verzameld worden voor het invullen van je agenda. Wanneer je in je agenda je volledige programma zet voor de komende week zal je hiervoor 15 punten scoren. Het geeft jezelf een goed overzicht van wat je allemaal moet doen en ondertussen kan je er een mooie prijs mee winnen! Op een leuke manier kan je je mede cliënten uitdagen de competitie aan te gaan om zo veel mogelijk punten te scoren en hoog op het scorebord te eindigen! Doordat er naast het invullen van je agenda nog allerlei activiteiten worden meegenomen heeft iedereen gelijke kans om te winnen en het vraagt maar erg weinig van je eigen tijd. Ga dus de uitdaging aan en win leuke prijzen!

Belangrijke data

  • 28 juni: Start wedstrijd
  • 12 juli: Uitreiking eerste prijzenronde
  • 26 juli: Uitreiking tweede prijzenronde
  • 9 augustus: Uitreiking derde prijzenronde
  • 23 augustus: Gezamenlijke afsluiting en uitreiking van de laatste prijzenronde

Praktische informatie

In onderstaande tabel kan je zien voor welke activiteiten je allemaal punten kan scoren, hoe veel punten je scoort en of je ze wel of niet zelf moet registreren.