This Watchface Fits with my Tattoos: Investigating Customisation Needs and Preferences in Personal Tracking

Rúben Gouveia; Daniel A. Epstein

doi:10.1145/3544548.3580955

This Watchface Fits with my Tattoos: Investigating Customisation Needs and Preferences in Personal Tracking

Rúben Gouveia
, Daniel A. Epstein

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Abstract

People engage in self-tracking with diverse data collection and visualisation needs and preferences. Customisable self-tracking tools offer the potential to support individualized preferences by letting people make changes to the aesthetics and functionality of tracker displays. In this paper, we use the customisation options offered by the displays of commercial fitness smartwatches as a lens to investigate when, why and how 386 self-trackers engage in customisations in their daily lives. We find that people largely customise their trackers' display frequently, multiple times a day, or not at all, with frequent customisations reflecting situational data, aesthetic and personal meaning needs. We discuss implications for the design of tracking tools aiming to support customisation and discuss the utility of customisations towards goal scaffolding and maintaining interest in tracking.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580955
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Abbreviated title	CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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customisation
personal informatics
physical activity
smartwatch

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Gouveia, R & Epstein, DA 2023, This Watchface Fits with my Tattoos: Investigating Customisation Needs and Preferences in Personal Tracking. in CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 327, Association for Computing Machinery, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580955

This Watchface Fits with my Tattoos: Investigating Customisation Needs and Preferences in Personal Tracking. / Gouveia, Rúben; Epstein, Daniel A.
CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 327.

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