Earables have emerged as a unique platform for ubiquitous computing by augmenting ear-
worn devices with state-of-the-art sensing. This new platform has spurred a wealth of new …

Background Self-tracking technologies are widely used in people's daily lives and health
care. Academic research on self-tracking and the quantified self has also accumulated …

Wearable activity trackers (WAT) are electronic monitoring devices that enable users to track
and monitor their health-related physical fitness metrics including steps taken, level of …

Wearable activity trackers hold great potential for facilitating self-regulated health behavior,
thereby improving physical fitness and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately …

Nowadays, thousands of popular applications are designed to help users improve their lives
through behavioural adjustment (eg, meditate more, stay hydrated). However, our …

Background: The proliferation and popularity of wearable activity trackers (eg, Fitbit,
Jawbone, Misfit) may present an opportunity to integrate such technology into physical …

Over the past decade, wearable activity trackers (WATs) have become increasingly popular.
However, despite many research studies in different fields (eg psychology, health, and …

Design frictions, a term found in popular media articles about user experience design, refer
to points of difficulty occurring during interaction with technology. Such articles often argue …

Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data
gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased …

Advances in technologies (eg smartphones, wearables) have resulted in the concept of 'self-
tracking', and the use of self-tracking technologies in physical activity (ie fitness tracking) is …