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Squeeker: The Mouse Coach
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Squeeker is an App, an interactive installation, and a running program.
Mice have been used extensively in scientific research. Every year hundreds of millions of mice get fat or depressed, some glow in the dark — all in the name of understanding ourselves, humans’ health better. What if we switch the dynamic and let the mouse control our health?
With Squeeker’s smart running wheel, whenever the mouse coach starts running, you will receive a notification to prompt you to run. If you run and your running distance matches the mouse’s distance, you both get a reward. The mouse gets a treat or toy. You get to scroll on social media, with the scroll distance the same as your running distance.
This approach leverages the habit loop theory, where cue, action, and reward are essential to forming healthy habits. The cue is the mouse running. The action is you run. The reward is the mouse gets a treat and you receive the dopamine from social media.
The app “Squeeker: The Mouse Coach” is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, free for everybody to download and engage in a healthy lifestyle.
Mice run around 4-20 km per day. It’s a half-marathon! To testify the mouse coach’s training on me, I successfully ran the Austin half-marathon on Feb 18, 2024. I was surprised by how effective their training could be, beating AI Coach and Human Coach! The last time I ran a marathon was 9 years ago and I haven’t been able to get back to running until the mouse coach appeared.
At its premiere at IDFA Doclab, people can run on the treadmill at the interactive installation. The speed of the treadmill is controlled by the mouse. If the collective running distance surpasses the mouse’s running distance of the day, we open a champagne in the evening. I also organized running events at the Vondelpark Pavillion and around the world. Many strangers on the street joined the run and formed communities.
Mice have been used extensively in scientific research. Every year hundreds of millions of mice get fat or depressed, some glow in the dark — all in the name of understanding ourselves, humans’ health better. What if we switch the dynamic and let the mouse control our health?
With Squeeker’s smart running wheel, whenever the mouse coach starts running, you will receive a notification to prompt you to run. If you run and your running distance matches the mouse’s distance, you both get a reward. The mouse gets a treat or toy. You get to scroll on social media, with the scroll distance the same as your running distance.
This approach leverages the habit loop theory, where cue, action, and reward are essential to forming healthy habits. The cue is the mouse running. The action is you run. The reward is the mouse gets a treat and you receive the dopamine from social media.
The app “Squeeker: The Mouse Coach” is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, free for everybody to download and engage in a healthy lifestyle.
Mice run around 4-20 km per day. It’s a half-marathon! To testify the mouse coach’s training on me, I successfully ran the Austin half-marathon on Feb 18, 2024. I was surprised by how effective their training could be, beating AI Coach and Human Coach! The last time I ran a marathon was 9 years ago and I haven’t been able to get back to running until the mouse coach appeared.
At its premiere at IDFA Doclab, people can run on the treadmill at the interactive installation. The speed of the treadmill is controlled by the mouse. If the collective running distance surpasses the mouse’s running distance of the day, we open a champagne in the evening. I also organized running events at the Vondelpark Pavillion and around the world. Many strangers on the street joined the run and formed communities.
