Activity time exchange for screen time (e.g. Fitbit + Xbox Partnership)

[FatShady]

I'm a parent and a gamer. In my household I want to set a good example for my kids and also set responsible limits on screen time. The Xbox for example has a great parental setting that allows you to control the screen time your child is allowed to use his/her console. This is good but it's a static limit of hours per day and occasionally we end up talking about extending this for various reasons. Sometimes I do and sometimes i don't, but my child has no control over this. 

I was also recently talking to him about getting a fitbit and i realised that there was a great opportunity for a partnership here. As parents, we want to encourage our children to be more active and my son, while quite active, would gladly spend most of the day playing Xbox. So, the proposal is that you are able to link your fitbit profile to your Xbox Live account. If there was a mechanism within the Parental settings where you could set a step or activity time exchange for screen time, the children would have some control over increasing their screen time. X steps = X screen time. Set this at a weekly or daily total and give parents the control over what the exchange rate is to give flexibility.

This would make physical activity a challenge and it would incentivise this positive behaviour while rewarding the child with something they want. If they are not active, they are not able to sit on the console at home.

Obviously you'd be able to extend this program to reward or incentivise various activities that linked back to way reward or a page where the child could select what they want to exchange things for.

In a perfect world, you'd link your children's fitbit profile to YouTube, Xbox, Playstation, iPad and allow the child to exchange their activities on any of these devices, but managed as a sum total of screen time.

I'm keen to see this idea happen and hear the thoughts of others. 

PS, I don't like that to register here, you have to sign a disclaimer saying that anything you write immediately becomes the property of a multi million/billion dollar listed company with absolutely no compensation to the generator of said good idea. This idea may be nothing, but if any idea from here is ever commercialised, I really hope they'd treat the idea generators with the respect and compensate them appropriately.

[YojanaFitbit]

Really nice suggestion @FatShady. Thanks for sharing your idea, I hope we have a lot of Fitbitters asking for the same thing. I'll see you around. 

[LanuzaFitbit]

Dear community members, thanks for sharing this suggestion. Our web API and smartwatch SDK are open which means that the service you are wanting can actually integrate with Fitbit! We’d encourage you to make your suggestion to the service and direct them to our existing API and SDK and resources such as the web dev API community. You will likely be able to email them via their contact us page or customer support, or they may have their own ideas board like this. Or encourage them to reach out to Fitbit directly! Thanks for your participation in the Feature Suggestion forums, we look forward to making Fitbit more useful for you.

[YojanaFitbit]

Dear community members, thanks for sharing this suggestion. Our web API and smartwatch SDK are open which means that the service you are wanting can actually integrate with Fitbit! We’d encourage you to make your suggestion to the service and direct them to our existing API and SDK and resources such as the web dev API community. You will likely be able to email them via their contact us page or customer support, or they may have their own ideas board like this. Or encourage them to reach out to Fitbit directly! Thanks for your participation in the Feature Suggestion forums, we look forward to making Fitbit more useful for you.