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Using personal informatics to motivate physical activity: could we be doing it wrong?

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posted on 2023-05-23, 07:08 authored by Burns, PJ, Lueg, C, Berkovsky, S
The global level of obesity and overweight is on the increase. Personal informatics – tools which assist users to collect and view information on their behaviours and habits – could help to reverse this trend by making users more aware of their daily level of physical activity. Most tools available use high-complexity high- engagement interfaces to convey this information. We argue that simpler interfaces may be more suitable for users who are not highly motivated to undertake physical activity. We discuss our recent work in designing and evaluating such an interface.

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Publication title

Proceedings CHI 2012 Workshop

Editors

I Li

Pagination

1-4

ISBN

978-1-4503-1016-1

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

ACM Digital Library

Place of publication

New York, USA

Event title

CHI 2012 Workshop

Event Venue

Austin, Texas, USA

Date of Event (Start Date)

2012-05-06

Date of Event (End Date)

2012-05-06

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Copyright 2012 the author(s).

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