Paper Info
Title
'I Don't Need a Goal': Attitudes and Practices in Fitness Tracking beyond WEIRD User Groups
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3447526.3472062
PROCEEDINGS OF 23RD ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (MOBILEHCI 2021): MOBILE APART, MOBILE TOGETHER
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
well-being, personal informatics, health, fitness tracker, diverse users, inclusive tracking experience, WEIRD
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jasmin Niess1411.25
Pawel W. Wozniak212735.17
Yomna Abdelrahman37216.86
Passant El Agroudy451.48
Yasmeen Abdrabou547.13
Caroline Eckerth600.34
sarah diefenbach740642.38
Kristina Knaving8384.34