NEAT-Lamp and Talking Tree: Beyond Personal Informatics towards Active Workplaces
Author(s): Moradi, FatemehWiberg, Mikael Abstract: A growing number of personal informatics (PI) systems have been designed to break the habit of prolonged sitting and to encourage physical activity during workdays and leisure hours. Few studies, however, have...
Quantified Self, Freedom, and the GDPR
Author(s): Reijneveld, Minke D. Abstract: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be applied from May 2018. One of the many new societal developments it has to deal with is the Quantified Self (QS). This concerns data that are collected about a person by...
Self-tracking for fertility care: Collaborative support for a highly-personalized problem
Author(s): Figueiredo, Mayara CostaCaldeira, ClaraReynolds, Tera L.Victory, SeanZheng, KaiChen, Yunan Abstract: Infertility is a global health concern that affects countless couples trying to conceive a child. Effective fertility treatment requires continuous...
My Fitness Pal calorie tracker usage in the eating disorders
Author(s): Levinson, Cheri A.Fewell, LauraBrosof, Leigh C. Abstract: Mobile phone and tablet usage has become a part of modern life. Mobile applications that count calories, such as My Fitness Pal, are frequently employed on a daily basis. Recent research has shown...
Activity trackers, prior motivation, and perceived informational and motivational affordances
Author(s): Jarrahi, Mohammad HosseinGafinowitz, NicciShin, Grace Abstracts: A large number of activity-tracking devices have recently dominated the fitness world. These devices typically track different forms of activities and are argued to encourage more active...
Users’ experiences of wearable activity trackers: A cross-sectional study
Author(s): Maher, CarolRyan, JillianAmbrosi, ChristinaEdney, Sarah Abstract: Background: Wearable activity trackers offer considerable promise for helping users to adopt healthier lifestyles. This study aimed to explore users' experience of activity trackers,...
A Versatile Architecture for Building IoT Quantified-Self Applications
Author(s): Menychtas, AndreasDoukas, CharalamposTsanakas, PanayiotisMaglogiannis, Ilias Abstract: The abundance of activity trackers and biosignal sensors as well as the evolution of IoT and communication technologies have considerably advanced the concept of...
Conversational Assistants: Investigating Privacy Concerns, Trust, and Self-Disclosure
Author(s): Saffarizadeh, K.Boodraj, M.Alashoor, T. Abstract: By the end of 2017 more than 33 million voice-based devices will be in circulation, many of which will include conversational assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. These devices require a...
Healthy users’ personal health information management from activity trackers: The perspective of gym-goers
Author(s): Feng, YuanyuanLi, KaiAgosto, Denise E. Abstract: This paper examines how healthy activity tracker users, particularly gym-goers, manage personal health information generated by their activity tracking devices. Findings from 117 valid responses to a web...
Wearable devices: Information privacy, policy and user behavior
Author(s): Taylor, Natalie GreeneHagen, LoniDincelli, ErsinUnsworth, Kristene Abstract: As wearable devices continue to rise in popularity and become more embedded in our lives, there is a growing need for better information privacy policies protecting users' privacy...