'I Don't Need a Goal': Attitudes and Practices in Fitness Tracking beyond WEIRD User Groups
Paper i proceeding, 2021

Fitness trackers have the potential for fostering sustained change and increasing well-being. However, the research community is yet to understand what design features and values need to be embodied in a fitness tracker for long-term engagement. While past work mainly focused on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic) fitness trackers usersin North America and Western Europe, this paper investigates another perspective on fitness tracking. We conducted interviews with N = 37 fitness tracker users in the US, Europe and Egypt to identify the similarities and differences in attitudes and practices in fitness tracking. We found that fitness tracking involved a deeper social context in Egyptian communities and our findings suggest that Arabic users focused on physiological measurement, while non-Arab Western users appear to bewere more interested in goal achievement. We contribute design dimensions that can help build more inclusive tracker experiences. Our work highlights how future fitness trackers should support a customisable spectrum of design values to offer engaging experiences to a diverse and global audience.

personal informatics

diverse users

fitness tracker

well-being

inclusive tracking experience

WEIRD

health

Författare

Jasmin Niess

Universität St. Gallen

Universität Bremen

Pawel W. Wozniak

Universiteit Utrecht

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign

Yomna Abdelrahman

Universität Der Bundeswehr München

Passant Elagroudy

Universität Stuttgart

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Yasmeen Abdrabou

Universität Der Bundeswehr München

Caroline Eckerth

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Sarah DIefenbach

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Kristina Knaving

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, MobileTogether

15
9781450383288 (ISBN)

23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, MobileTogether, MobileHCI 2021
Virtual, Online, France,

Ämneskategorier

Medieteknik

Design

Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)

DOI

10.1145/3447526.3472062

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2021-11-01