Understanding users' disengagement with wearable activity trackers

Ruben Gouveia; Sergio Barros; Evangelos Karapanos

doi:10.1145/2693787.2693802

Understanding users' disengagement with wearable activity trackers

Ruben Gouveia, Sergio Barros, Evangelos Karapanos

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

With an increasing emphasis on preventive and user-driven healthcare, the market of personal informatics tools for health, such as wearable activity trackers, has received rapid growth. However, recent research has shown that most activity trackers have failed to drive sustained engagement for the majority of users. With this study we present initial insights on a longitudinal study that seeks to understand how users disengage with activity trackers and the role of two design strategies for sustaining users' engagement: contextual information and evolving content.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Workshops Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450333146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2693787.2693802
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, ACE 2014 - VidaMar, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Duration: 11 Nov 2014 → 14 Nov 2014 Conference number: 11 http://ace-2014.blogspot.com/

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Conference	11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, ACE 2014
Abbreviated title	ACE 2014
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Funchal, Madeira
Period	11/11/14 → 14/11/14
Internet address	http://ace-2014.blogspot.com/

Keywords

Activity trackers
Behavior change
Personal Informatics

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Gouveia, R, Barros, S & Karapanos, E 2014, Understanding users' disengagement with wearable activity trackers. in ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Workshops Proceedings., a17, Association for Computing Machinery, 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, ACE 2014, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 11/11/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2693787.2693802

Understanding users' disengagement with wearable activity trackers. / Gouveia, Ruben; Barros, Sergio; Karapanos, Evangelos.
ACE 2014 - 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Workshops Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. a17.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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