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Project Introduction

Pedal Florida is a broad initiative to increase Floridians’ physical activity through outdoor social cycling. Within this initiative, we have undertaken a Florida Department of Health funded research study to benefit Florida’s citizens, who include more than 200,000 cancer survivors. Even after fighting their battle with cancer, these survivors continue to face increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Extensive research shows the benefits of physical activity in combatting these risks, yet many cancer survivors lead sedentary lives. We aim to increase physical activity and social connectedness with an innovative citizen-led mentoring approach focused on cycling, which is an excellent form of aerobic exercise for people of all ages. By focusing on outdoor cycling, the Pedal Florida initiative leverages the restorative power of spending time outdoors both on physical and mental wellness.

Project Description

We are establishing a train-the-trainer style intervention to recruit and train new outdoor cyclists. By partnering with cancer survivors in citizen-led cycling clubs already in existence throughout the state, this intervention is intended to be self-sustaining at a low cost after it is well established. Long-term, the project aims to significantly improve cancer survivorship through increasing physical activity, reducing isolation, and doing both of those in restorative outdoor spaces.

publications

2025
[3]	Benefits and Drawbacks of Sharing Heart Rate Data during Collaborative Exercise: A Qualitative Study. Wesly Ménard, Kevin Childs, Oluwatomisin Obajemu, Toni V. Earle-Randell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer. Proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2025), 2025. [bib]
2024
[2]	Cycling is a Collaborative Sport and Cycling HCI Needs More Collaboration Research. Maedeh Agharazidermani, Wesly Ménard, Hannah A. Lavoie, Lincoln Lu, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Danielle E. Jake-Schoffman. Honolulu '24: CHI Workshop Learning from Cycling: Discovering Lessons Learned from CyclingHCI, Honolulu, HI, 2024. [bib]
2023
[1]	Exploring Real-Time Collaborative Heart Rate Displays for Cycling Partners. Maedeh Agharazidermani, Lincoln Lu, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2023, pp. 1-7. [bib]