City Funds App to Combat Childhood Obesity

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O’Brien Park in Parker, Colo., has become the test site for a new system of tracking technology designed to encourage a healthier lifestyle in Colorado youth, more than 14% of whom were found to be overweight or obese in a study by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in 2014. The city of Parker is working in conjunction with Innovation Pavilion and Under Amour to fund the new project called 21st Century Parks.

In August, 17 motion sensors were installed at O’Brien Park under slides, on stairs and beside swings, to gather data on the popularity of the various equipment, the average length of usage of each one, and the busiest times of day for the playground in general. The collected data will be used to inform a new app in design by Innovation Pavilion targeting the children in the community. The goal: to incentivize outdoor play.

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