When fitness trackers don't 'fit': End-user difficulties in the assessment of personal tracking device accuracy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 623-634

  Yang, Rayoung ^a   Shin, Eunice ^b   Newman, Mark W ^a,c   Ackerman, Mark S ^a,c  

^a School of Information North   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Activity; Fitness tracker; Sensor based tracking

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ACCURACY; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; FITNESS TRACKER; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRACKING TECHNOLOGY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84960909264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2750858.2804269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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