Tracking physical activity: Problems related to running longitudinal studies with commercial devices

UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 699-702

  Harrison, Daniel ^a   Marshall, Paul ^a   Berthouze, Nadia ^a   Bird, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity tracker; Behaviour change; Fitbit; Fitness; Health; In the wild; Pedometer; Personal device; Physical activity; Quantified self

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; TARGET TRACKING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; FITBIT; FITNESS; PEDOMETER; PERSONAL DEVICES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTIFIED SELF;

HEALTH;

EID: 84908670447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2638728.2641320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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