Digital Healthy Lifestyle Application for UUM Computer User

Azliza Othman,Nassiriah Shaari,Yusrita Mohd Yusoff

doi:10.3991/ijim.v15i06.20675

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Abstract

<span>A computer is a vital tool for UUM community in doing routine jobs and activities. Spending many hours using a computer without breaks can cause bad effect on users’ health. Inappropriate computer use can cause muscle and joint pain, overuse injuries of the shoulder, arm, wrist or hand, and eyestrain. Fortunately, this pain and misery can be avoided with only a few simple routines. Therefore, a short break from using a computer is necessary. The break could be filled with a short and simple exercise. Physical exercise can provide many benefits to individual and organization. Besides improving the productivity of the organization, physical exercise also can help staff and students to be more focused, stay alert, feel motivated, energetic, and have less stress. In response to this, this paper introduces a digital health application to create health awareness among the UUM community. The methods employed in the study are a preliminary investigation, requirement gathering and analysis, prototype development, and prototype validation. From the requirement analysis phase, 11 criteria were gathered and applied in designing the Digital Healthy Lifestyle Application prototype. Then it was validated by the content and user interface experts. The experts responded positively towards the application.</span>

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Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has a large community consisting of lecturers, administrative staff, students, and general workers
Spending many hours using a computer without a break could cause a health problem to users
The perceptions that doing exercise requires a person to wear proper clothes and should only occur at a specific time are the biggest challenge in achieving a healthy lifestyle

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Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) has a large community consisting of lecturers, administrative staff, students, and general workers. The lecturers and administrative staff work for 8 to 10 hours daily in which they have to use computers. Lecturers use the computer for teaching preparation and searching reference for their discussion, research, and publication while administrative staff use the computer for most of their work since all the management systems are computer-based. Students use computers for their learning and personal matters. A mojority of UUM community usea computer for their routine jobs and activities. Spending many hours using a computer without a break can cause negative effects on users’ health.Excessive computer use can lead tomuscle and joint pain, overuse injuries of the shoulder, arm, wrist or hand, and eyestrain [10][19]. A study by [14] as cited in [18] reported that staring at a bright screen for hours can causeeye fatigue or iJIM ‒ Vol 15, No 06, 2021

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