Walking the walk just got easier with Moves app, a free iPhone app that logs your movements. It’s like a diary of your day, automatically tracking activity and recognising movement such as walking, cycling, running and transportation. You can see where you’ve been and how much you’ve moved in a day through the app’s state-of-the-art activity- and place-recognition algorithms. Moves can show you where you’ve been, so you can see that at 10am every day you grab a coffee or at 3pm you tuck out to the shop to grab some sweets.
Moves isn’t only about seeing how much one has travelled or where they’ve been. It’s also about wellbeing. Moves aims to get people walking more, aiming to walk 10,000 steps a day as part of a healthy lifestyle. Co-founder Aleksi Aaltonen says, “the idea is to allow you to understand your everyday habits and take small steps toward more healthy lifestyle.”
Moves app is a brilliant tool. It makes people aware of their movements (or lack there of) and encourage more people out walking.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
