Creating sports communities to foster healthy habits and prevent loneliness: developing a mobile application to connect people to be active - leveraging low-code solutions to promote community building

Abstract

In recent years the number of people experiencing loneliness has been rising, even though society has never been more digitally connected. This work develops a digital solution to address the problem by targeting the consequences. First, a description of OutSystems, a low code development platform, is presented. Followed by research to ideate a solution that addresses the physical and mental health of individuals. This effort resulted in the development of the Connactive application - a digital platform for organizing and participating in sports events and activities to support healthier and connected communities and thus create social impact. This work project is the result of a group research in which, in addition to the presented scope of activities, a detailed analysis and elaboration of idea development, validation and design has been performed.