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 …

The research community on the study and design of systems for personal informatics has
grown over the past decade. To take stock of what the topics the field has studied and …

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 …

Fitness technology feature use items were not available in the literature, and thus, were
developed for the current study. Items were developed for each feature set following the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of whether smartwatches will
survive and gain their own niche within the consumer electronics market. Based on the …

Wearable trackers are believed to enhance users' self-knowledge, but their impact on the
relationship that people have with their own bodies is relatively unexplored. This study aims …

The use of wearable self-tracking devices to increase health and well-being is on the rise;
yet, there is a lack of scientific evidence concerning their actual benefits. This article …

Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-
knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these …

This paper offers first-steps guidance towards the development of a methodology that
embodies theoretical proposals for a fourth-wave,'entanglement'approach to HCI. We …