Activity tracking: Barriers, workarounds and customisation

UbiComp 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 617-621

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity tracking; Behaviour change; Fitness; Health; Personal informatics; Physical activity; Quantified self

Indexed keywords

HEALTH;

ACTIVITY TRACKING; BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; FITNESS; PERSONAL INFORMATICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTIFIED SELF;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84960881229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2750858.2805832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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